From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 9 01:01:41 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2B6616A41F for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 01:01:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from ebb.errno.com (ebb.errno.com [69.12.149.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B06743D48 for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 01:01:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from [10.0.0.200] ([10.0.0.200]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id jA911TpU023208 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 8 Nov 2005 17:01:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Message-ID: <43714A5B.6060006@errno.com> Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 17:01:15 -0800 From: Sam Leffler User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050927) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael VInce References: <4362188D.1030308@gmx.de> <43708587.8040301@roq.com> <4370CEDD.2080404@errno.com> <43713425.7020705@roq.com> In-Reply-To: <43713425.7020705@roq.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jochen Gensch , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Atheros 108 Mbit mode X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 01:01:42 -0000 Michael VInce wrote: > Sam Leffler wrote: > >> Michael VInce wrote: >> >>> Jochen Gensch wrote: >>> >>>> Hi! >>>> >>>> Does anyone have a working 108 Mbit with an Atheros based wireless >>>> card? >>>> I cannot set it up here, even though 54 Mbit cards work fine... >>>> >>>> Jochen >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> I bought a 108mbit card hoping it would magically work, it didn't and >>> I realized its a bad idea to buy any 108mbit card. >> >> >> >> Not sure what your point is but I recently verified that static turbo >> mode worked and got 52Mb/s for upstream tcp netperf in close proximity >> and ~65Mb/s for udp unidirectional traffic. This is current with the >> latest hal but the hal should not matter. Nightly runs of the linux >> code with > > > Good to hear you can get 108mbit speeds, the point I was trying to make > is that the hassle of buying two of a specific single vendor equipment > gear that have made their own home made 108mbit standard isn't worth it > for me. > > I suppose if you didn't use your laptop anywhere but at a single place > such as just using a laptop only at home and you needed the speed (and > your were sure you could reach it) you could buy a set of wireless gear > from a single vendor with their own 108mbit standard and hope it works. > > To me I decided its a mistake to try and make my choice of what wireless > gear to buy on non standard 802.11 pre-N creation that will only work > with 1 single vendor and probably only a single point in time in their > product line. You said: "I bought a 108mbit card hoping it would magically work, it didn't". I said: it works for me. Anyone that cares about interoperability beyond 54Mb/s will wait for 11n products. Sam