Hi misc@, I recently acquired a laptop that reports an Atheros AR928X wireless card. While it's somewhat usable, I've had a couple of instances of "odd behavior," including being unable to upload files reliably through Firefox.
This led me to test with speedtest.net, and it reported something like 20mbit/sec down and 0.15 mbit/sec up. I confirmed the poor upload performance with iperf on the local network. Seeing around 20-26 mbit/sec down (which is totally fine for me) and 0.15-0.5 mbit/sec up. This is a 2.4GHz-only access point, that's set for B/G/N if I'm not mistaken. There's not a lot of competing signals, if any. I did notice that at first I didn't have firmware, yet it worked the same as after running fw_update which pulled down some athn firmware. dmesg says nothing about ath firmware, even after rebooting with the firmware present. I'm not sure if it should or not. To confirm it wasn't just poor signal or another issue, I booted the drive up on a different laptop with iwn0. In the same location I see something like 10mbit/sec up and 20mbit/sec down, which is quite usable for me. Is this likely about as good as it gets, or is it worth investigating further? Thank you! -Henrich
