[Samba] Speed/lockup problems with wireless client

[Eric Ellsworth]

On Thursday 06 February 2003 03:09 am, Kurt Weiss wrote:
> my old wireless ap hangs too, if the signal is not strong enough. ->
> this results, cause the PCMCIA card has not this strength as the ap has.
> on the notebook u see medium quality, but the signal does not recieve
> the ap...
> our new ap runs well (after flashing newest firmware...)

> which ap u use? 
Linksys' standard Wired/wireless AP, the one that's on the front page of 
CompUsa, etc.  I can look up the model number if that's really key.

> which card u use? 
Orinico Silver, under RedHat 8.0

> are u using encryption on wlan?
Nope, not right now

> did u try to slow down (fix 5.5mbits/s)?
How do i do this?  I was under the impression that 802.11b transmitted at 
2.2Mbs...  Do I need to set it to this, or to 5.5Mbps?

>did u check "save transmit"
> (evtl. ap) when microwaves are in the near?
Would this be on the ap or the card?

Thanks,

Eric

> i hope it helps...
>
> Eric Ellsworth schrieb:
> > Hi,
> > 	I have samba running on a home LAN using a Linksys mixed wired (100 Mbit
> > ethernet) & wireless access point, which also does NAT to a DSL modem. 
> > The server is connected to this access point via an ethernet cable. 
> > Clients can connect via wireless or wired network connection.
> > 	I am using encrypted passwords, and have in smb.conf:
> > 	socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=4096 SO_SNDBUF=4096
> > IPTOS_LOWDELAY
> > 	When I connect to a share from the client, copying down from this share
> > gets so slow it locks the client - in Windows, the instance of Windows
> > Explorer locks, while in Linux under an xterm,
> > # cp /mnt/share/test/somefile.dat /home/me/test/somefile.dat
> > results in:
> > cp: reading `/mnt/share/test/somefile.dat': Input/output error
> >
> > 	Copying up to server is no problem on either side, and copying up and
> > down are no problem when the client is connected to the networked by
> > wired connection.