Anybody could have a hint why my home Wi-fi transfer using nc is so slow?
What I've got:
1) Xubuntu machine with Atheros:
$ lspci | grep -i wireless
03:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 0
2) Xubuntu machine with another Atheros:
$ lspci | grep -i wireless
02:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
3) Wireless Zyxel router "NBG-417N"
How I use that:
Standard nc usage - at one machine I run
cat myfile | nc -l 9999
and on the second one
nc 192.168.x.x 9999 > myfile
I get transfer speeds between 700kBs and 2MBs max. What is weird is that when I download something from Internet, I get easily more than 3MBs! So how come that transferring files locally using nc is slower than downloading something from the Internet?
Thanks!
myfile
that you used for testing?