From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 2 00:12:27 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCD3616A4CE for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 00:12:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hosea.tallye.com (joel.tallye.com [216.99.199.78]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64BAD43D5E for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 00:12:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lorenl@alzatex.com) Received: from hosea.tallye.com (hosea.tallye.com [127.0.0.1]) by hosea.tallye.com (8.12.8/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j220COqS008254 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 1 Mar 2005 16:12:24 -0800 Received: (from sttng359@localhost) by hosea.tallye.com (8.12.8/8.12.10/Submit) id j220CNF5008252; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 16:12:23 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: hosea.tallye.com: sttng359 set sender to lorenl@alzatex.com using -f Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 16:12:23 -0800 From: "Loren M. Lang" To: Christopher Kelley Message-ID: <20050302001223.GA30896@alzatex.com> References: <421EB26B.5050608@kelleycows.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <421EB26B.5050608@kelleycows.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-GPG-Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc X-GPG-Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does 802.11b use a lot of resources? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 00:12:28 -0000 On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 09:06:51PM -0800, Christopher Kelley wrote: > Have I tried too hard to squeeze usability out of an old computer? > > I have a Pentium-166 that has been a faithful router & firewall (FreeBSD > 5.3 and pf) for a couple years now. It has no trouble with the 3 to 4 > Mbps I get from my broadband connection, at least not with ethernet. > > I wanted wireless, so I could use my laptop around the house. I > dutifully read the section in the manual about setting up FreeBSD as an > access point. I'm using a Netgear MA311 802.11b card (Prism 2.5 > chipset). And it does work, except it's very slow. Now I know that I > can only expect about 50% of the rated speed with wireless, but I I thought it was more like only 10% of the rated bandwidth. > figured even if I got only 4Mbps, I'd be fine. But I get less than > 1Mbps. I've updated the firmware, added a signal booster and hi-gain > antenna, and I have "excellent" signal strength throughout my house. > > So my question is, is there more overhead with wireless than with > ethernet? TOP doesn't seem to show that I'm taxing it too hard, idle > never goes below about 70% with polling enabled (Hz=1000), and never > below about 80% with polling disabled. Am I expecting too much out of > an old Pentium-166? > > Thanks for your help. > > Christopher > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C