From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from srv10.sysproserver.de ([78.138.89.124]:33849 "EHLO srv10.sysproserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750946Ab2ADRYF (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2012 12:24:05 -0500 Received: from [10.63.52.37] (i5E86D120.versanet.de [94.134.209.32]) (using SSLv3 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by srv10.sysproserver.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C38FC61C177 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 18:24:08 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <1325697866.18811.19.camel@n10051> (sfid-20120104_182410_129025_1B77447D) Subject: minstrel falls down to 1Mbit rate From: Andreas Braeu To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:24:26 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello, we try to compile an openwrt image for the linksys wrt54gl router. these routers will build a mesh network and use ad-hoc-mode and olsr. from time to time the routers will fall down to the one and only rate we set as mcast rate), as "cat /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/netdev \:wlan0/stations/*/rc_stats" tells us. the result will look like this (in our environment mcast rate is set to 1): rate throughput ewma prob this prob this succ/attempt success attempts TtP 1 0.1 15.6 0.0 0( 0) 12 27 the only ways to correct this is to reboot the router or restart the wifi components. the period of time this occurs, varies from 2 minutes to some days. Are there any suggestions how to avoid this issues? Best, Andreas