From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luis R. Rodriguez Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 06:07:41 -0700 Subject: [ath9k-devel] Dlink DIR-655 firmware upgrade broke 11n In-Reply-To: <1ecf80920810192031x2da33c2fraef8d51cf2f77fe1@mail.gmail.com> References: <1ecf80920810030453r675afa14ga157cc850d42ed62@mail.gmail.com> <0BC6C966-534D-495D-85CF-82482CAE8B60@atheros.com> <1ecf80920810051635y40b01d17v6d5000f55902bba1@mail.gmail.com> <1ecf80920810192031x2da33c2fraef8d51cf2f77fe1@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20081020130741.GC9035@tesla> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 08:31:13PM -0700, Kevin Mitchell wrote: > So upgrading to the 1.21 (9/30/2008) firmware on the DIR-655 router > allowed my AR5418 client to associate 11n at the speeds I was seeing > before. I am again using the current wireless-testing kernel as of > writing. > > On client: > $ iperf -c 192.168.1.100 > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Client connecting to 192.168.1.100, TCP port 5001 > TCP window size: 16.0 KByte (default) > ------------------------------------------------------------ > [ 3] local 192.168.1.102 port 50197 connected with 192.168.1.100 port 5001 > [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth > [ 3] 0.0-10.1 sec 35.3 MBytes 29.2 Mbits/sec > > On remote machine w/ gigabit to router: > $ iperf -c 192.168.1.102 > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Client connecting to 192.168.1.102, TCP port 5001 > TCP window size: 16.0 KByte (default) > ------------------------------------------------------------ > [ 3] local 192.168.1.100 port 55712 connected with 192.168.1.102 port 5001 > [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth > [ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 47.9 MBytes 40.0 Mbits/sec > > Actually this is a bit faster than I was seeing before. I'm guessing > there have been some improvements in the time that I have been > 11nless. Keep up the good work guys! Give this patch a try as well: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/patches/mac80211/aggrv10.patch Luis