I have some kind of hardware, driver, or configuration problem with my wireless card.
Yesterday, I got a new cable internet service. Due to the way it comes into my house, Ethernet is not really an option. At the modem via ethernet, it tests at around 61 mbps. I do not expect that kind of speed via wireless, although it should be possible, theoretically. My son's Macbook Pro via wireless tests to around 33 mbps. My iPad Air via wireless tests at around 17 mbps.
However, my main PC only gets around 7-10 mbps. I run Siduction amd64, the standard Debian Sid rt2800pci driver, and firmware-ralink. Pings to the router are very good, less than 1 ms. The wireless card is a Ralink RT3062 n chipset that is supposed to support up to 300 mbps. iwconfig shows the connection bit rate to be from 60-80 mbps (varies with time, up and down). So, why is the actual performance so low, when other wireless devices on the same wlan are so much faster?
I keep thinking it is a connection configuration problem, except for the fact that iwconfig shows a reasonably high connection bit rate. I have searched the web, but most of the articles I find are just about generic installation; I can't really find anything about tuning. Here is my configuration:
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet static
address 10.0.0.9
broadcast 10.255.255.255
dns-nameservers 10.0.0.1
dns-search 10.0.0.1
gateway 10.0.0.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 10.0.0.0
wpa-psk xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
wpa-ssid zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Any help or advice would be much appreciated.
Tim