Re: carl9170: wnda3100 only 54MB/s

[Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>]

On Saturday 02 October 2010 04:32:04 Saqeb Akhter wrote:
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Client connecting to 192.168.10.52, TCP port 5001
> TCP window size: 16.0 KByte (default)
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> [  3] local 192.168.10.60 port 50647 connected with 192.168.10.52 port 5001
> [ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
> [  3]  0.0-10.0 sec  98.6 MBytes  82.6 Mbits/sec
>  
> Seems to be doing a lot better now thanks :)
Hm, I'm not too optimistic. After all, it took a long time to get to this
point and even now the driver isn't "stable" yet (hence the EXPERIMENTAL
flag).

> I was not aware the WMM extensions were needed to get HT working.
;)

I think 802.11n says somewhere, something like:
"An HT STA is also a QoS STA"

And QoS is enabled/setup by WMM.
> I ended up upgrading my distro to 10.10 RC, and compiling the
> compat-wireless u posted, and enable WMM extensions on my router.
> Working considerably better :)

One more thing: I've updated the firmware to 1.8.8.3
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/carl9170#Firmware_binary
(In case you are still using the original 1.8.8.1)

Best Regards,
	Christian