From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Felix Fietkau Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:18:03 +0100 Subject: [ath9k-devel] weird low throughput avg. 42Mbps && high CPU load as a SU In-Reply-To: <8CC72C442B48AB8-5404-73F1@webmail-d059.sysops.aol.com> References: <8CC72C442B48AB8-5404-73F1@webmail-d059.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <4B69F61B.3020000@openwrt.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org On 2010-02-03 9:44 AM, oiioeu at aol.com wrote: > > I use IXP425( CPU 533M, 64M RAM ) platform, OpenWrt r18530 with > compat-wireless-2009-11-21. > As an AP, it worked just good I could see an average throughput like > 70~80Mbps under HT40( the throughput limited by the 100M ethernet in my > test environment). > > As a SU, I tested with a compex wp543 AP and got a throughput like > 42~45Mbps under HT40( I think the AP uses HT20 ) so the iw wlan0 station > dump on SU shows: OpenWrt r18530 is very old. A lot of things that can affect wifi performance have changed since that revision. I would recommend building a current version of OpenWrt and rerunning your tests with it. - Felix