Optimizing Wifi

[gleachkr]

Hi Everyone,

How's your wifi performance? I'm interested in figuring out what the maximum is, and what kind of access point is going to work best with the pinebook pro.

Please post iperf measurements, ideally within LAN, and details of your wifi setup.

I'm getting 20.5 Mbits/sec to a wired machine on my LAN, using the 5Ghz band and a  NETGEAR C3700-100 router.  I'm sure you can do better than that!

[vrabac]

If you post how to measure it with iperf that would be useful to some of us egg. post your iperf command with all flags.

[gleachkr]

If you post how to measure it with iperf that would be useful to some of us egg. post your iperf command with all flags.

Sure. I used iperf3, which you sometimes need to install specifically. The command is `iperf3 -s` on the wired machine, and `iperf3 -c $HOST` on the pinebook, where $HOST is some hostname or IP where the pinebook can reach the wired machine.

If you have some other way of measuring, though, or if you just want to vouch for a good access point, that's fun too.

[belfastraven]

If you post how to measure it with iperf that would be useful to some of us egg. post your iperf command with all flags.

Sure. I used iperf3, which you sometimes need to install specifically. The command is `iperf3 -s` on the wired machine, and `iperf3 -c $HOST` on the pinebook, where $HOST is some hostname or IP where the pinebook can reach the wired machine.

If you have some other way of measuring, though, or if you just want to vouch for a good access point, that's fun too.

Using your iperf command with my Ubuntu focal desktop as server,  Manjaro on pbp, I'm getting an average of 90. Mbits/s.   The pbp is sitting right next to the router itself,a Netgear orbi  RBR50.     Using the Ookla speedtest for linux on Manjaro on the bpb ,I get over > hundred Mbps.

[manawyrm]

About 175 MBit/s, with Ubiquiti AP AC Lite. 5 GHz, VHT40/VHT80 (running Manjaro)
That's the limit of the SDIO bus.

[Arwen]

Here are my results with a Netgear C7000v2 router, located less than 1 meter from the Pinebook Pro using the default Debian;

5Ghz - about 175 Mbits/sec, either direction
2.4Ghz - about 22 Mbits/sec sending, 28 Mbits/sec receiving

Note the other computer is wired. So the PBP is the only wireless hop.

To compare, when using a StarTech 1Gbps USB Ethernet adapter, (in the USB 3 Type A port), I get about 512 Mbits/sec either way.

[vrabac]

Wired client, and Pinebook Pro over 5Ghz with an TP-Link Archer C7 v2 with OpenWrt/LEDE .

Code:

[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
[  5]   0.00-1.00   sec  17.6 MBytes   148 Mbits/sec
[  5]   1.00-2.00   sec  17.5 MBytes   147 Mbits/sec
[  5]   2.00-3.00   sec  18.0 MBytes   151 Mbits/sec
[  5]   3.00-4.00   sec  17.5 MBytes   147 Mbits/sec
[  5]   4.00-5.00   sec  18.2 MBytes   153 Mbits/sec
[  5]   5.00-6.00   sec  17.5 MBytes   147 Mbits/sec
[  5]   6.00-7.00   sec  18.6 MBytes   156 Mbits/sec
[  5]   7.00-8.00   sec  19.3 MBytes   162 Mbits/sec
[  5]   8.00-9.00   sec  18.4 MBytes   155 Mbits/sec
[  5]   9.00-10.00  sec  17.5 MBytes   147 Mbits/sec
[  5]  10.00-10.01  sec   153 KBytes   177 Mbits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
[  5]   0.00-10.01  sec   180 MBytes   151 Mbits/sec                  receiver
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[tso4ev]

MrFixIt debian doesn't see the 5GHz networks is there any way to fix it .. and yeah on manjaro works but the pacman su*s so I'm with the default debian

[Arwen]

@tso4ev, hmm, my PBP with the default / MrFixIt Debian works fine with 5Ghz WiFi. In fact, it appears I get the maximum speed possible with the WiFi chip in the PBP and it's interface method when using 5Ghz WiFi.

[tso4ev]

@Arwen all my other devices work perfect with the 5GHz wifi but the PBP don't even see it do I need to install something extra can you trow me a link if I do thanks