Comment 5 for bug 1069766

Running speedtest.net at home gives me 10MB / 1MB, which is the speed of my Internet connection. Transfers within the network are still slow, though.

I made a test application in Python that transfers big files over a socket connection. It reads the data like this:

block = self.socket.recv(1024*1024*10)

and then prints the received block size. With a wired connection I get relatively large numbers but when using wireless I get the value 1448 over 99% of the time and some other values such as 4344 and 2896 every now and again. If I add a sleep after every block the number gets bigger but transfer speed remains the same.

When running the transfer test, top shows that a process called irq/17-b43 is taking over 10% CPU time.