Super-pathetic Samba access speed, Lucid 10.04

[luvshines]

I have Samba share setup on my Laptop running Lucid Lynx, for my home network, wireless

The copy speed for my movies, when I access them from Windows laptop is too pathetic.
Took 22 min to copy around ~1.6GB of data, giving me a speed of only 1.2 MB/s

Haven't seen nething that bad
What settings do I have on my server which can improve the copy speed ??

Smb.conf is pretty simple and default

[global]
   workgroup = WORKGROUP
   netbios name = scooby-laptop
   server string = "ScoobyDo server (Samba, Ubuntu)"
   dns proxy = no
   log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
   max log size = 1000
   syslog = 0
   panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
   security = user
   encrypt passwords = true
   passdb backend = tdbsam
   obey pam restrictions = yes
   unix password sync = yes
   passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
   passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .
   pam password change = yes
   map to guest = bad user
   usershare allow guests = yes

[moveez]
   comment = Movies for Sharing
   path = /home/scoob/movies
   browseable = yes
   read only = no
   guest ok = no

[sikander3786]

Samba has been quite fast for me with the default settings since I am using it.

You can add these lines to the global section of smb.conf file and then restart Samba and see if it helps.

socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_RCVBUF=65536 SO_SNDBUF=65536

[luvshines]

Didn't help much. 976 MB still taking 15 Mnts @ ~1.1 MB/s

[sikander3786]

Which wireless card have you got? What is the actual connection speed? Can you achieve better speeds with connections other than Samba?

[luvshines]

Which wireless card have you got?

Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection (rev 61)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 1010
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 31
Memory at df2fe000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [d0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable+
Capabilities: [e0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting <?>
Kernel driver in use: iwlagn
Kernel modules: iwlagn

What is the actual connection speed?

Connects at 54 Mbps

Can you achieve better speeds with connections other than Samba?

I'll do the testing with other protocols and share the results.
On a wired network, the Samba share speed was ~10 MB/s

[luvshines]

Tried FTP on the same network.

That too giving ~1MB/s speed,

Still to try NFS

Assuming networking constraints, I'll mark this as SOLVED. And will keep it updated if I find nething interesting