Prism2 Netgear MA401 performance

[MarkWatson]

I'm only getting 70KB/s when using ftp (several versions including wget) over my Prism2. This is similar with Genesis and Miami. I have an 060 and the signal quality is good so I expected more like 400KB/sec. At least I saw that mentioned in a few threads on prism2.

Are there any software tweaks to improve this?

Thanks,

Mark

[MarkWatson]

Thanks:). 1&4 were taken care of. I'd forgotten to remove the "MapROM" jumper on the 1260. So thats point 2.

That just leaves point 3. Unfortunately I'm having a few more issues with 3:-( I'm trying to use BlizKick with the following options - first entry in s:startup-sequence:

This works:
c:blizkick *

This fails:
c:blizkick * EXTRESBUS=32768
"object is not of required type"

I tried:
c:blizkick * module fastlocal

Unfortunately there isn't enough space. I'm wondering if this BlizKick issue is related to using 3.9 ROMs...

Thanks,

Mark

Edit: Looks like it is an OS3.9 on ROM thing. I can use the 3.1 + patches for now then. Until I get the EPROM burner out

[MarkWatson]

It seems that BlizKick doesn't like patching 3.9 roms build by Remus. I'm rebuiling the ROM images with the appropriate patches instead. Does this list look good:
Romfixes2 (do I still need romfixes?)
PatchMath020_All
HogWaitBlit
ColdResetCard
DosResetCard (I'm presuming I need both reset cards?)
FixGetMsg
MoveVBR
NoClick

I also want LocalFast, but it isn't having that one:-( Sounds like that is most important. Remus says "suitable memory header not found". Since that isn't working will running FastExec in the startup sequence instead give equivalent results?

Thanks,

Mark

[MarkWatson]

Sorry I wasn't clear. I'm using OS3.9 burned onto EPROMs, to avoid a reboot. Just OS3.1+ the rom updates, no further patches.

To try exec library in fastram I tried BlizKick, as you suggested. It was not having it though, I think due to my non-standard OS 3.9 ROM. I think it will work with an OS3.1 file + ROM updates + patches. I will try that shortly.

Instead I decided to burn a new ROM instead with all the patches. So I applied the BlizKick patches with Remus(tool to make ROM images for burning) instead. Unfortunately it didn't like LocalFast, the very module I wanted:-(

Anyway I have now burned a new 3.9 ROM with the other modules, which is a big improvement anyway. I have the card reset patch, noclick etc. So no more messing around unplugging the card each reboot! So I need to get Remus to understand LocalFast somehow. I'll ask Doobrey first...

I just tried another method of moving exec to fastram - fastexec, to avoid digging out the ROM updates! I checked it with sysinfo, with FastExec it was in fast RAM. Without it was indeed in chip RAM. Unfortunately it didn't really speed up the network card, though undoubtedly it will have improved the system generally. In AmiFTP I am still getting only about 70KB/sec.

Anyway thanks for the help so far. Really appreciated.

Thanks,

Mark

[MarkWatson]

I'm downloading from my LAN. Its an 802.11g setup. Perhaps the 11b/11g stuff doesn't work well with the prism2 driver.

I just tried AsyncHTTPGet (while exec is in fast RAM) with a 1MB file. Similar performance, I get 60-70KB/sec. I tried downloading to RAM and to HDD.

Mark