First post, by xjas
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Welp, I was gonna post this on VCF but seeing as that board seems to have hosed itself, here we go. Hopefully someone on here knows more about networking than I do (not hard.)
I'm trying to copy a big batch of files from the laptop (red arrow) to the Mac Mini (blue arrow.) The router has clear line-of-sight to both machines and is only ~4m away (yellow arrow.) Both machines are running OS/X 10.9 and connected via 802.11n (no ac on my router.)
Feel free to laugh at my fruitless attempt to stay out-of-frame...
It is taking F O R E V E R. I'm getting a sustained transfer rate of around 10-17 Mb/s (megabits) and it keeps seemingly bursting in speed and then stalling again. Currently the copy dialog shows over 3h left to copy the remaining 11GB.
From my reading 802.11n should theoretically max out at 600Mb/s but see more like 100-200Mb/s in typical use?? Still a far cry from what I'm getting.
Note that this is NOT a new thing. It's ALWAYS slow. I just finally got fed up with it.
For what it's worth, I'm getting good signal strength everywhere, but apparently some bozo in the building has his/her router set to broadcast on MAX POWAH WANK MODE on the same channel as mine. Mine is the red network right in the middle, the offending one is the blue one overlapping it. (Sorry for the blurry shots, couldn't get my camera to focus on the phone screen.)
Still, my signal comes through loud and clear:
Somebody should make this a DOOM mod. Actually that would be boring as shit.
Same story over where the PCs are located:
The wifi status on the laptop shows RSSI: -51, Transmit Rate: 130, MCS index: 14 (No units.) I don't really know what any of that means.
Anything I can do about this? Should I switch my router to channel 14 (mostly empty) and to hell with the crosstalk issues for the people on ch.11? BOZO MAXPOWAH always seems to show up on channel 6 so at least that would get me out of his way. Suggestions?
What kinda speeds do you guys get if you're still running a wireless-N network?
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