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Why would you test wifi speed using afp or cifs? Don't both those protocols dictate a fsync on each block, meaning they are very dependent on rtt which is much
by trotsky 13y ago
Why would you test wifi speed using afp or cifs? Don't both those protocols dictate a fsync on each block, meaning they are very dependent on rtt which is much longer via radio? If you're testing radio bandwidth you really want to use a protocol without restraints like that, such as rtsp or http. While window size will undoubtedly help here, I wouldn't be surprised to find that windows 8 isn't flushing as often or performs async fsyncs.
- drewcrawford 13y agoProbably because afp or cifs are going to be the situation that ordinary people experience a WLAN bottleneck? The speed of RTSP over 802.11ac would be relevant if you are giving a keynote address in your living room that needs to be streamed to the hundreds of interested participants in the kitchen.
- trotsky 13y agoyet they test 10ft los in a barren band, making it clear that they're trying to conduct an unrealistic lab style rf/phy interface test.