After conducting countless tests, I have obtained the following accurate and repeatable results. I seek the assistance of experts to determine whether the issue lies with me or with ROS:
My ESXi setup includes six i226v ports, with one management port not passed through and five ports passed through: three of these passed-through ports are WAN, and the other two are connected to a wireless AP and a switch, respectively. ROS acts as the main router, with all five passed-through ports allocated to it; OpenWrt serves as a secondary router, equipped with only one virtual network port and a directly connected USB 3.2, to which a portable hard drive is attached.
Before ROS 7.9, speed tests conducted over the wireless AP were only around 40M/s. The upgrade to 7.9 resolved many bugs related to bridging, improving speeds to 90M/s, which is nearly the limit for wireless APs. Thus, this upgrade resolved the slow bridging issue between passed-through WAN and LAN ports. However, the wireless bridging speed between virtual network cards and passed-through network cards within the LAN has not improved, evidenced by: 1. Wireless uploads to the passed-through portable hard drive via the AP reaching satisfactory speeds of 60M/s, but wireless downloads from the hard drive being a mere 18M/s; 2. However, wired downloads via the AP can reach 100M/s, suggesting that the bridging speed between virtual and passed-through network cards in ROS might not be the issue. 3. To investigate whether the AP's wireless performance was at fault, I replaced ROS with iKuai, resulting in both wireless uploads and downloads averaging around 58M/s, indicating that the wireless functioned properly. 4. To eliminate the possibility of incompatibility between ROS and my specific AP model, I tested two other brands of APs, yielding similar results: slow wireless downloads but normal upload speeds. Wired downloads, however, achieved full speed. 5. To check if bridging ports affected speed, I connected the AP to the unpassed management port, achieving satisfactory wireless download and upload speeds of 60M/s.
Therefore, I seek advice from the experts: Is the issue of slow wireless downloads related to ROS? Can you provide any solutions or insights?