On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 09:02:39PM +0000, Tom Doherty wrote: > Hi > > I'm experiencing poor network performance when using iwn(4) on > OpenBSD 5.7 amd64 snapshot (downloaded today 28/1/2015). > > Plugged in via re0 I see 8MB/s. On Linux using wireless I download at > 1.3MB/s. > > On OpenBSD I download at ~73KB/s. > > I get the same results using GENERIC and GENERIC.MP Is there anything > I can do to improve the performance of the below setup or would I > be better off with a different card?
See http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=142125380222151&w=2 It might be the rate adaptation issue I mentioned there but until this is investigated closely we simply won't know for sure. There could be other reasons. Generally, yes, it's quite possible that wifi performance could be improved by someone interested in working on it.
