Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2019 15:58:43 -0700 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> To: georg@bege.email Cc: "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" <freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Atheros AR9280 5GHz working but still slow? (FreeBSD 11.3) Message-ID: <CAJ-VmomvUXUjEOJQ5U1Xo814So2wEMN2ts=CSLbCVC2u0XEdbg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <c6edaad8-0bd3-4ada-7e45-886e7fc5c57c@bege.email> References: <c6edaad8-0bd3-4ada-7e45-886e7fc5c57c@bege.email>
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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 mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-wireless-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > " >
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