Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2019 10:42:04 +0200 From: georg@bege.email To: Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Atheros AR9280 5GHz working but still slow? (FreeBSD 11.3) Message-ID: <f14b01d07f6d3a03ff91eecbbedaf842@bege.email> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-VmokaOrepmTGP3cMxiGQOs04kPzRpk4xhSb4KsMc5ak7iiA@mail.gmail.com> References: <c6edaad8-0bd3-4ada-7e45-886e7fc5c57c@bege.email> <CAJ-VmomvUXUjEOJQ5U1Xo814So2wEMN2ts=CSLbCVC2u0XEdbg@mail.gmail.com> <b6b10072-a6a4-8b21-cf96-581fc856e65a@bege.email> <CAJ-VmokaOrepmTGP3cMxiGQOs04kPzRpk4xhSb4KsMc5ak7iiA@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello, I see - ok so its not possible with the iwm driver yet. Care to elaborate the details, whats missing etc.? regards, Am 2019-09-04 02:34, schrieb Adrian Chadd: > Hm, 16 and 12 RSSI isn't that high, and it's selecting low bitrates. > > 3165 only does 11abg right now iirc, the iwm driver doesn't do 11n or > 11ac. > > -a > > On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 at 16:25, Georg Bege <georg@bege.email> wrote: > >> 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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org >> <mailto:freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org> >>> mailing list >>> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>> "freebsd-wireless-unsubscribe@freebsd.org >>> <mailto:freebsd-wireless-unsubscribe@freebsd.org>" >>> >> >> -- >> Georg Bege >> Mail: georg@bege.email >> XMPP: therion@ninth-art.de >> IRC: megaTherion @ Freenode
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