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I am getting a few weird issues regarding my internet connection on OpenELEC.
First of all, all repositories show up as empty except one - I've tried force refreshes and deleting my userdata folder to no avail. This includes repositories that I installed via zip file. The only thing I can use to test my speed currently is updating OpenELEC. When I try to do that, it downloads the updates at 1 to 5 Kb/s. I also managed to install PleXBMC (which was in the repo that does not show up as empty) and when I try to watch a movie via PleXBMC it buffers at a rate of like 1% each 5 minutes.
I am on a wireless connection and when I check my network status on the System Info section, the 'Internet' part will often say 'Busy'. Not sure if that's related or not.
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2014-01-19, 22:22
(This post was last modified: 2014-01-19, 22:24 by DBMandrake.)
Sounds like a wireless performance problem. What wireless adaptor are you using and how far is it from the base station ? I would start my troubleshooting by testing over a direct Ethernet connection. If a repository refresh times out or fails due to connectivity issues you will just see an empty repository, and 5kb/s is extremely poor speed, slow enough that the repository refresh will probably time out.
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The adaptor is an EDUP EP-N8508, brand new. It's centimeters away from my modem. I will try an ethernet cable as soon as I can, thanks.
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Okay, I started transferring some data to my SD Card via Samba and it's taking forever to copy some files...it's going at 71kb/s and slowly dropping. Could the write speed of the SD Card be the reason for this instead of the internet speed? Sorry if this sounds dumb, I'm a complete newbie...
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2014-01-20, 02:22
(This post was last modified: 2014-01-20, 02:25 by DBMandrake.)
If there is wireless interference you could have very slow speeds regardless of how close it is. Is it normally that close to the modem ? If so I would recommend using Ethernet all the time. If not I'd still suggest trying it to narrow down the cause of the problem..
71kb/s copying to the SD card via samba is exceptionally slow. I have my Pi connected to my wireless router by Ethernet, copying from a wireless connected laptop to the SD card on the Pi through samba I get about 3.3MB/s (26.4Mbit/sec) which is roughly 50x faster than what you're seeing.
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So I've tried a couple other wi-fi adapters as well as Ethernet. Same result. With ethernet I could get about 600Kb/s though. Still not even close to my actual internet speed.
This also happens with other RPi XBMC based OS's, not only with OpenELEC.
I have yet to try another SD Card.
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Your transformer has at least 1A?
I don't know if this can be lack of power to the rpi.