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Date:      Wed, 4 Sep 2019 01:25:05 +0200
From:      Georg Bege <georg@bege.email>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" <freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Atheros AR9280 5GHz working but still slow? (FreeBSD 11.3)
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Hi Adrian,

the output is as follows
-------------------------------snip--------------------------------
ADDR               AID CHAN RATE RSSI IDLE  TXSEQ  RXSEQ CAPS FLAG
e0:94:67:e5:ab:1e    1   40  54M 16.5    0  54934  29184 EP   AQ 
RSN WME
ac:92:32:2c:1b:9b    2   40   7M 12.5    0    946  23648 EP   AQPHTRS 
WME HTCAP RSN
-------------------------------snip--------------------------------

I've measured this aprox. 2MB/s with my laptop, which is also using 
FreeBSD 12.
Its having an Intel wireless 3165 card.

regards,
Georg

Am 04.09.19 um 00:58 schrieb Adrian Chadd:
> hi!
> 
> No, you should be getting more than 2 megabits/sec.
> 
> Whats the output of "ifconfig wlan0 list sta" ?
> 
> 
> -adrian
> 
> 
> On Wed, 28 Aug 2019 at 16:41, Georg Bege <georg@bege.email> wrote:
> 
>     Hello community,
> 
>     Im using a Wifi AP with an Atheros card now for quite some time,
>     since a
>     couple of FreeBSD revisions. I guess started back on FreeBSD 10(?).
> 
>     My wifi AP seem to limit me to 2MB/s basically, which is pretty slow.
>     Im not sure if all my options are ok, or if there are some ways I can
>     tweak around it...
>     Is this a limitation of the current driver?
>     Would be very interesting to hear from someone who runs a similar setup
>     and has more speed/throughput than I do.
>     I only have this box with this card, cant really tinker a lot around
>     with other cards - and as I know Atheros is one of the drivers which is
>     better supported than others.
>     Back then it was quite hard to get 5GHz running correctly....
> 
>     Some of my debug output, config files etc.:
>     -------------------------------dmesg-ath-------------------------------
>     ath0: <Atheros 9280> mem 0xfe800000-0xfe80ffff at device 0.0 on pci4
>     [ath] enabling AN_TOP2_FIXUP
>     ath0: [HT] enabling HT modes
>     ath0: [HT] 1 stream STBC receive enabled
>     ath0: [HT] 1 stream STBC transmit enabled
>     ath0: [HT] 2 RX streams; 2 TX streams
>     ath0: AR9280 mac 128.2 RF5133 phy 13.0
>     ath0: 2GHz radio: 0x0000; 5GHz radio: 0x00c0
>     -------------------------------dmesg-ath-------------------------------
> 
>     -------------------------ifconfig-wlan0--------------------------------
>     wlan0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
>     metric
>     0 mtu 1500
>              ether XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
>              hwaddr XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
>              nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>              media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11na
>     <hostap>
>              status: running
>              ssid XXXXXXXXXXX channel 40 (5200 MHz 11a ht/20) bssid
>     XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
>              regdomain ETSI country DE ecm authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy
>     MIXED
>              deftxkey 2 AES-CCM 2:128-bit AES-CCM 3:128-bit txpower 17
>     mcastrate 6
>              mgmtrate 6 scanvalid 60 ampdulimit 64k ampdudensity 8
>     shortgi wme
>              burst dtimperiod 1 -dfs
>              groups: wlan
>     -------------------------ifconfig-wlan0--------------------------------
>     As you can see Im using "country DE" - but this cant be the reason for
>     such slow speed?
> 
>     -------------------------rc.conf--------------------------------------
>     create_args_wlan0="wlanmode hostap channel 40:ht/20 country de"
>     -------------------------rc.conf--------------------------------------
> 
>     ------------------------hostapd.conf----------------------------------
>     interface=wlan0
>     ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd
>     ctrl_interface_group=0
>     ssid=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXx
>     wmm_enabled=1
>     ieee80211d=1
>     country_code=DE
>     wpa=2
>     wpa_passphrase=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
>     wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
>     wpa_pairwise=CCMP
>     rsn_pairwise=CCMP
>     ------------------------hostapd.conf----------------------------------
> 
>     best regards,
>     -- 
>     Georg Bege
>     Mail: georg@bege.email
>     IRC: megaTherion @ Freenode
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-- 
Georg Bege
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