I have been trying to copy a raft of files (iTunes files that have been massaged on a faster machine). I thought things were going too slowly (the data plotted over the Sat 12:00 legend) so I plugged both machines into the wired network and turned on 100 MBit full-duplex. That is shown over the Sun 12:00 to Monday.
Exasperated, I turned off full-duplex, dropping back to automatic/half-duplex on the source machine and went back to 54 Mbit wireless for the destination. That’s the much more impressive data you see far right. Following it in a terminal window and watching disk usage, it’s working a lot faster.
Doesn’t make any sense to me. I expected 100 Mbit full to outperform the mixed environment.
After reading comments, I realize what a maroon I am. The switch in the WRT54G supports 100/full but ya gotta turn it on.
I guess there is the notion that autonegotiation doesn’t always work as you would like. I can’t get the rl0 driver in FreeBSD to do 100/full (it’s set on auto) but I suspect it’s working OK. I can always change that one port if it bogs down.
Things seems better now š