On Thu, Feb 09, 2023 at 06:51:54AM +0100, Martin Kjr Jrgensen wrote:
> That's what I gathered so far, but I could have been wrong or not
> up-to-date. There have been some work on the ieee80211(9) lately.
I've just done a quick test using:
athn0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Atheros AR9287" rev 0x01: apic 2 int 16
athn0: AR9287 rev 2 (2T2R), ROM rev 4, address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
... in hostap mode.
I've used this particular card with OpenBSD since 6.1, and other athn
cards before it during the 5.* days. One long standing issue has been
that the transmission rate always seemed to drop to DS1 as soon as any
data was transferred, and stay there (*).
At least in this casual test this morning, I was able to transfer 1.5 Gb
of data at about 24 Mbps.
So maybe one of the many issues has been resolved, or at least seen some
improvement.
But this was a casual test with a single client, so it ignores many of
the other problems that plagued hostap mode on OpenBSD. More testing is
definitely required.
(*) Actually it was a bit more complicated than that, from what I
remember the transmission rate on the host seemed to stay low when
the flow of data was mostly from client to host. Running a ping with
a very low latency, but not enough to flood the connection bandwidth,
E.G. ping -i 0.1 from the server to the client, caused the
transmission rate to increase.
