[Prism54-users] Success with SMC 2835W

[Ronald Pijnacker]

> Ronald Pijnacker wrote:
> >1. lspci identifies the card as some kind of Harris whatever card.
> 
> Correct.  An entry for the chipset has been submitted to
> pciids.sourceforge.net, but it is not yet approved.
> 
> >2. bing localhost ap gives values in the range from 20Mbs to over
> >   100Mbs. This seems a bit much, right?
> 
> What kind of "bing" program are you using?
> There appears to be one that floods the link and another one
> that measures the speed using latency considerations.
> The latter should be taken with a grain of doubt.
> 
> If you want to test the throughput, attach a PC with
> wired 100 Mbps Ethernet to your access point and use ttcp
> from wireless to wired.
> (This also tests your access point and the wired Ethernet,
> not just the wireless card.)
> This measures TCP-based throughput.  The numbers would be
> interesting.

Alas, I do not have a wired 100Mbps Ethernet system. I'll let you know
whenever I succeed in testing the speed. Any other idea's?

  Ronald.