On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 04:07:33PM -0500, rea...@catastrophe.net wrote: > Just sitting around doing nothing I'm seeing 30% loss to my next hop. > > # ifconfig iwm0 > iwm0: flags=808843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,AUTOCONF4> mtu 1500 > lladdr 80:19:34:ab:ab:ab > index 5 priority 4 llprio 3 > groups: wlan egress > media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (HT-MCS3 mode 11n) > status: active > ieee80211: nwid WIFI-NET chan 1 bssid 6c:70:9f:XX:XX:XX 52% wpakey > wpaprotos wpa2 wpaakms psk wpaciphers ccmp wpagroupcipher ccmp > inet 192.168.1.227 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 > # ping -qc 30 192.168.1.1 > PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1): 56 data bytes > > --- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics --- > 30 packets transmitted, 21 packets received, 30.0% packet loss > round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 2.092/5.420/10.804/2.673 ms > > > What exact model do you have of the 3160? Maybe I can try and source one > and give it a try.
I doubt it would make a difference. This doesn't look like a hardware defect, given that your run(4) device was also unhappy. My guess would be that the channel is noisy. Try to move your AP to another channel, like channel 6 or channel 11. And if your AP can use the 5 GHz band (channel 36 and up) that might help a lot more. To see what else is going on on channel 1 outside your wifi network, you can use this: ifconfig iwm0 mediaopt monitor ifconfig iwm0 chan 1 ifconfig iwm0 up tcpdump -n -i iwm0 -y IEEE802_11_RADIO To go back to regular client mode: ifconfig iwm0 -mediaopt monitor ifconfig iwm0 -chan
