From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 10 05:10:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D31B16A420 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 05:10:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7EF543D45 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 05:10:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (inchoate.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.21]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.5/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2A5ARjZ019029 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 10 Mar 2006 15:40:33 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Damian Gerow Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 15:40:12 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060308231529.GA2049@afflictions.org> <200603091105.38164.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20060310033752.GB31158@afflictions.org> In-Reply-To: <20060310033752.GB31158@afflictions.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2720073.noNZc5GHkP"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200603101540.21112.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -1.939 () ALL_TRUSTED,AWL X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.56 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, JoaoBR Subject: Re: ath(4) and 802.11g speed X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 05:10:54 -0000 --nextPart2720073.noNZc5GHkP Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 10 March 2006 14:07, Damian Gerow wrote: > : I suspect forcing 54Mbit will either not work at all (because the signal > : isn't strong enough or your hardware doesn't support it), or it will > : negotiate a speed up to 54Mbit (which would result in no functional > : change). > > Okay, this has me a bit curious, so I dug into it a bit more: > > SSID BSSID CHAN RATE S:N INT CAPS > linksys 00:06:25:7b:25:3d 6 11M 35:0 100 E > MYSSID 00:12:17:85:9a:3b 11 54M 39:0 100 E > wahoo62 00:13:46:47:0f:0e 11 54M 4:0 100 EPS > > I'd have thought that a S:N of 39:0 wouldn't be all that weak, no? Looki= ng > at a post by Sam this past August, he calls 30:0 "very strong", though th= at > was for an 802.11b link. I'd think that the higher the number, the > stronger the signal. Is the above too weak to handle a full 54Mbps link? =20 Which SSID? MYSSID? The linksys one looks like b only.=20 The other 2 look like g. Are you sure your card supports g? It may be able to see a g AP but only=20 connects and b speeds. What does ifconfig -m ath0 say? =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2720073.noNZc5GHkP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEEQo85ZPcIHs/zowRAlLtAJ4kKlM7YqI6idgvdnDCuKtLZ1SdgQCbBoAm LyPzENZbhkvVUbWzj1xJlE4= =UzD9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2720073.noNZc5GHkP--