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From: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
To: Mohammed Shafi <shafi.wireless@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@qca.qualcomm.com>,
	Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>,
	Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com>,
	Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilb@qca.qualcomm.com>,
	Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Subject: Re: CTS timeout issue with AR9285
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 08:20:53 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120202142053.GA24483@ubuntu-macmini> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD2nsn0tk_A18vjsCzgO2_7swuM=VPghyTaiHjkHAUc3h3+MiQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 04:58:23PM +0530, Mohammed Shafi wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> wrote:
> > I recently updated a machine with AR9285 wireless from kernel version
> > 3.0 to 3.2 and saw that wireless had become slow and unreliable. It
> > seems that the problem is extremely frequent CTS timeouts, which began
> > happening with commit adb5066 (ath9k_hw: do not apply the 2.4 ghz ack
> > timeout workaround to cts). Restoring the CTS timeout to the value prior
> > to this commit on top of 3.2 gets performance back to what it was with
> > 3.0.
> 
> does the environment is a noisy one (or) clear one

It's relatively clear, there isn't much activity at all on the channel
besides this card and the AP. And like I said, other cards aren't having
this problem. Using wireshark I can also see that RTS frames are being
sent repeatedly even though the AP responds with CTS frames.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-02 14:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-02  4:25 CTS timeout issue with AR9285 Seth Forshee
2012-02-02 11:28 ` Mohammed Shafi
2012-02-02 14:20   ` Seth Forshee [this message]
2012-02-02 12:35 ` Felix Fietkau
2012-02-02 14:15   ` Martin Hundebøll
2012-02-02 14:22     ` Felix Fietkau
2012-02-02 14:38   ` Seth Forshee
2012-02-04  6:08     ` Marek Lindner
2012-02-04 10:24       ` Adrian Chadd
2012-02-04 20:18         ` Felix Fietkau

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