From: Valentin Manea <atheros@mrs.ro>
To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org
Subject: [ath9k-devel] High speed UDP traffic
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:49:45 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AD03C99.8070401@mrs.ro> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0910091040100.2814@ranga-desktop>
Actually after snooping around I found out the Dlink card was to blame,
it's rate_max_phy was to 72000 kbps. I've tried a different PCI board
and now the stream goes up to 160000 kbps. So I guess it all depends on
the radios in this boards.
Thanks for your help,
Valentin
On 10/09/2009 08:13 AM, Ranga Rao Ravuri wrote:
> may be it is worth adding details, like what AP you are using etc details.
> you can check rate statistics to check what rate being used ?
>
> you can achieve more than 150 mbps only when aggregation is enabled. For
> aggregates to go well, you need blockAck. I do not know how you achieve
> high throughput without block ack ?,
> ~ R
>
>
> On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Valentin Manea wrote:
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> I've been experimenting the last days hacking the ath9k& mac drivers
>> to get the highest possible UDP throughput from an AP to a station.
>> Unfortunately I'm stuck at 6.6 MB/s and I cannot figure how to get past
>> this - I'm using 2 Dlink PCMCIA ar5008 based boards - and if possible I
>> would like some suggestions.
>> This is my situation now:
>> * basically the packets are being sent as AMPDU and I've turned off the
>> retries due to bad reception, I've tried disabling BlockAck in the
>> receiver, but as soon as I've done that it seems the TX rate falls to
>> 0.4MB/s and I don't really understand why.
>> - could it be something I missed or is it something hardware related?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Valentin
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-08 15:52 [ath9k-devel] High speed UDP traffic Valentin Manea
2009-10-09 5:13 ` Ranga Rao Ravuri
2009-10-10 7:49 ` Valentin Manea [this message]
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