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Date:      Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:37:28 -0600
From:      "Ishmael F.E." <sulfurfff@gmail.com>
To:        Paul B Mahol <onemda@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ?Bandwidth limit to 31kBps for wlan?
Message-ID:  <ed5c0bbe0912281137w4152d0bfjda369a4403cce54@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <3a142e750912281050o32418f07j62d3f4e80ef3cde@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <3a142e750912281050o32418f07j62d3f4e80ef3cde@mail.gmail.com>

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2009/12/28

> On 12/28/09
> > Hi list
> >
> > I have this little issue with my wireless card:
> > No matter where I am or what I'm downloading,
> > I just can't download at more than 31kBps ever
> > (only while using BSD).
> >
> > What should I do to be able to download faster?
> >
> > The bandwidth should be ~400kBps
> >
> > I'm using 8.0.
> >
> > /boot/loader.conf:
> > bcmwl5_load="yes" #I'm using the ndis driver
> > .
> > .
> > /etc/rc.conf:
> > netif_enable="YES"
> > synchronous_dhclient="YES"
> > wlans_ndis0="wlan0"
> > ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
> > .
> > .
> > pciconf -lv :
> > ndis0@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x1366103c chip=0x432814e4
> rev=0x03
> > hdr=0x00
> >   vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation'
> >   device = 'Broadcom 432AGN 802.11a/b/g/draft-n Wi-Fi Solution
> > (BCM4321KFBG)'
> >   class = network
> > .
> > .
> > ndis0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu
> 2290
> >   ether 00:1a:73:00:00:00
> >   media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
> >   status: associated
> > wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu
> 1500
> >   ether 00:1a:73:00:00:00
> >   inet 192.168.0.00 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.3.255
> >   media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/54Mbps mode 11g
> >   status: associated
> >   ssid Q... channel 6 (2437 Mhz 11g) bssid 00:1d:7e:00:00:00
> >   country US authmode WPA privacy OFF powersavemode CAM
> >   powersavesleep 100 txpower 0 bmiss 7 mcastrate 6 mgmtrate 6
> >   scanvalid 60 protmode CTS roaming MANUAL bintval 0
>
> Signal strength?
> What is displayed for ndis0 if you boot with verbose boot option.
>
> --
> Paul B Mahol
>

I boot(ed?) in verbose mode (option 5?) but nothing
interesting showed, just something like this:

dmesg | egrep -ni "ndis|wlan"
10:Preloaded elf module "/boot/kernel/ndis.ko" at 0xc1b0f31c.
11:Preloaded elf module "/boot/kernel/if_ndis.ko" at 0xc1b0f3c8.
103:wlan: <802.11 Link Layer>
472:ndis0: <Broadcom 4321AG 802.11a/b/g/draft-n Wi-Fi Adapter> mem
0xb6000000-0xb6003fff,0xd0200000-0xd02fffff at device 0.0 on pci3
473:ndis0: Reserved 0x4000 bytes for rid 0x10 type 3 at 0xb6000000
474:ndis0: Reserved 0x100000 bytes for rid 0x18 type 3 at 0xd0200000
480:ndis0: [MPSAFE]
481:ndis0: [ITHREAD]
482:ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.1
483:ndis0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
484:ndis0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
485:ndis0: 11g rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
794:wlan0: bpf attached
795:wlan0: Ethernet address: 00:1a:73:xx:xx:xx


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