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From: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
To: Sujith Manoharan <sujith@msujith.org>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Performance problems with Netgear WNDAP350
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 08:55:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130910135509.GA4501@thinkpad-t410> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21038.55900.901542.571888@gargle.gargle.HOWL>

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 02:07:48PM +0530, Sujith Manoharan wrote:
> Seth Forshee wrote:
> > I posted some wireshark traces in case someone else can find something
> > else informative that I've missed. They're at
> > http://people.canonical.com/~sforshee/wndap350/:
> > 
> >  * iperf-iwlwifi.pcapng.gz: Trace from iperf client on Linux STA with
> >    iwlwifi
> >  * iperf-server.pcapng.gz: Trace from the iperf server for the same test
> >    as iperf-iwlwifi
> >  * iperf-osx.pcapng.gz: Trace from iperf client on OSX, using Broadcom
> >    wireless
> 
> The link with the iwlwifi client seems to be drowning in RTS/CTS exchanges
> compared with the osx client.
> 
> iwlwifi: total: 109087, RTS - 9782 (9.0 %)
> osx:     total: 522581, RTS - 8366 (1.6 %)

Yes, but I don't think that's behind the APs failure to send us frames
for long periods of time. I can better compare the RTS/CTS exchanges
between the two when I can get an otherwise stable connection to the AP
from Linux.

Seth

      reply	other threads:[~2013-09-10 13:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-09 21:25 Performance problems with Netgear WNDAP350 Seth Forshee
2013-09-10  8:37 ` Sujith Manoharan
2013-09-10 13:55   ` Seth Forshee [this message]

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