[colug-432] Packet Loss

[Jon Miller]

What are you seeing in your 'messages' file? Any clues as to what
might be happening?
 I too was having problems at home and I actually reconfigured my
router to support only up to wireless G (802.11g) vs the wireless N
(802.11n) I was previously using. But my problems were very visible
from the 'messages' file. My resolution wasn't very scientific but I
was more interested in getting it working than finding root cause.

-- Jon Miller

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Thomas W. cranston
<cranston.thomas at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/10/2011 09:53 AM, Richard Troth wrote:
>> I get packets lost on WiFi all the time.
>> Varies with location in the house, other traffic on the LAN, phase of
>> the moon ... any number of things.
>>
>> Look for things obstructing line-of-site between you and the router.
>> Things like A/C ducting (hidden in your walls) can be particularly
>> problematic.
>>
>> -- Rick;<><
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:26, Thomas W. cranston
>> <cranston.thomas at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Wondering why I am getting packet loss between my laptop and Linksys
>>> wireless router.
>>>
>>> PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
>>> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=150 time=4.15 ms
>>> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=150 time=4.25 ms
>>> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=150 time=2.51 ms
>>> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=150 time=4.17 ms
>>>
>>> --- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
>>> 5 packets transmitted, 4 received, 20% packet loss, time 4005ms
>>> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 2.511/3.772/4.251/0.730 ms
>>>
>>>
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> My laptop is about 30 inches from the wireless router
>
> Is that much packet loss unusual for wireless? I am getting no packet
> loss from my desktop box that is connected via wire.
>
> I am running Ubuntu 10.04 on Dell Inspiron 1520 which has Broadcom
> wireless. Could the Broadcom wireless be the problem? Tired wireless
> router? Linksys BEFW1154.
>
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