From: Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@shaw.ca>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: AR2424 speed issue.
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:06:55 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200906122006.55492.tfjellstrom@shaw.ca> (raw)
I just got a new laptop with an Atheros 2424 based wifi card (lspci says
AR242x, but the pci device id is: 0035).
While it seems to be stable, it is quite slow for 802.11g. The maximum speed I
can get out of the ath5k driver is the speed it auto connects at: 36Mb/s. If I
force it to anything higher, nothing can get through (the actual connection
seems to stay up till some form of very long time out happens).
I just tried the madwifi drivers on madwifi's website (latest trunk snapshot,
and svn trunk itself) and It auto connects at 18Mb/s. If I up the rate to
54Mb/s the connection stays up, but it doesn't really seem to be transferring
any faster.
For comparison's sake I tried it out in Windows 7. It auto connects at 54Mb/s
and can stream 1080p h264 without stuttering. In linux however, many SD or
lower res Xvid won't play without stuttering. 720p and 1080p are unwatchable.
What can be done about this? Is there some setting I'm overlooking? Its quite
annoying to have to reboot into windows to watch some videos.
--
Thomas Fjellstrom
tfjellstrom@shaw.ca
next reply other threads:[~2009-06-13 2:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-13 2:06 Thomas Fjellstrom [this message]
2009-06-18 23:34 ` AR2424 speed issue Maxim Levitsky
2009-06-18 23:46 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2009-06-18 23:55 ` Maxim Levitsky
2009-06-19 11:56 ` Bob Copeland
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