Hi,
I'm trying to compare the wireless performance of the aruba AP 505 in a controller based environment with the performance of the wired connection (in both the cases the cables are up to 1Gb).
I found an interesting result: with one TCP stream on iperf3 i found a throughput of around 300Mbps, while with multiple streams the throughput is around 600-700Mbps.
Instead, with the wired connection I found always a throughput of 900Mbps both with one or more streams.
Do you know why in the wireless case there is this big difference that is not present in the wired case?
In all the cases my iperf server is a workstation in the local network with 1Gb interface and so the problem is not due to the iperf server.
- I attach below the results (as sais 300Mbps and 650Mbps are obtained with wifi, while the two 940Mbps results are obtained with the wired connection).
- Is it possible that the difference is given by the packet loss and the relative TCP windows size? In the wired case the result is the same with 1 or more streams, while with wifi it is very different. Can you explain me this big difference?