On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 6:25 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek
<[email protected]> wrote:
> After some reading of the kernel sources (always a pleasure), I've found
> how to enable 2x2 MIMO on the BBGW.  I'm getting 77Mbit/s downstream (TCP
> iperf), which is pretty cool, but only 22Mbit/s upstream.

Is this AP/sta or adhoc mode?

It may be you are running low on memory bandwidth or cpu. I'd done a
test over usbnet to the board and got about the same result.

Does the wifi use the softmac layer? The changes toke made there on
ath9k (see 
https://blog.tohojo.dk/2016/06/fixing-the-wifi-performance-anomaly-on-ath9k.html
) resulted in quite a nice gain in performance.

Also the supplied antennas are not the best, you can get better
antennas pretty cheaply via amazon.

> In order to enable 2x2 MIMO on the board, you need to add a file
> /etc/modprobe.d/wl18xx.conf containing the following line:
>
>     options wl18xx ht_mode=default
>
> This might actually be an upstream bug -- the default ht_mode should
> probably be "default" (duh), and the documentation for the "n_antennas_2"
> module parameter is incorrect (it is documented as defaulting to 1, but
> actually defaults to 2).
>
> I'll let you know if something breaks.

Next time I boot mine I will add in all the changes you've figured out
out! Thanks!
> -- Juliusz



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