Re: WLAN throughput less 10Mb/s

2020-04-22 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 02:52:09AM -0300, Anatoli wrote: > How do the same drivers work in Linux? Can't "we" "just" "copy" the code > from there? That's already what we are doing. But porting (what you call "just copying") code is a lot of work, too. This stuff needs a lot of attention to detail

Re: WLAN throughput less 10Mb/s

2020-04-22 Thread Anatoli
How do the same drivers work in Linux? Can't "we" "just" "copy" the code from there? Or does the GPL licensing absolutely prevents from analyzing Linux code and using their implementation details? Two years ago FreeBSD started implementing AC stack [1]. Maybe there could be a collaborative project

Re: WLAN throughput less 10Mb/s

2020-04-22 Thread Florian
Good evening, I played around a bit with my apu2 (dmesg attached) with two antennas. I ran iperf3 throughputs tests with 6.6 stable and 6.7 current / latest snapshot. Performance numbers are attached in the individual files. For the me, the significant improvement in throughput when deactivating

Re: WLAN throughput less 10Mb/s

2020-04-18 Thread Mario Theodoridis
On 13.04.2020 22:42, Mario Theodoridis wrote: On 13.04.2020 20:34, Stefan Sperling wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 07:03:27PM +0200, Mario Theodoridis wrote: Hi everyone. I'm running a APU2 board with an Atheros wlan chipset. I've been plagued by rather slow WLAN throughput rates < 10Mb/s. Is

Re: WLAN throughput less 10Mb/s

2020-04-15 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 06:45:26AM -0700, 0x6d6174 wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I'm running also an APU2 board with an Atheros wlan chipset: > > athn0 at pci5 dev 0 function 0 "Atheros AR9281" rev 0x01: apic 5 int 16 > athn0: AR9280 rev 2 (2T2R), ROM rev 22, address XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX > > I also use

Re: WLAN throughput less 10Mb/s

2020-04-15 Thread 0x6d6174
Hi everyone. I'm running also an APU2 board with an Atheros wlan chipset: athn0 at pci5 dev 0 function 0 "Atheros AR9281" rev 0x01: apic 5 int 16 athn0: AR9280 rev 2 (2T2R), ROM rev 22, address XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX I also used an ALIX board with an Atheros wlan chipset (AR9280). >From OpenBSD 6.0 t

Re: WLAN throughput less 10Mb/s

2020-04-14 Thread Mario Theodoridis
On 14.04.2020 10:21, Stefan Sperling wrote: Hmm, using media autoselect mode 11a mediaopt hostap nwid foo wpaprotos wpa2 wpakey mysecret up Brings the inteface up alright, but i don't see any 5 or 2.4 GHz signal with a Wifi analyzer nor can i connect. The 'nwid' and 'wpakey' options should app

Re: WLAN throughput less 10Mb/s

2020-04-14 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 11:37:24AM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > On 2020-04-14 09:21, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > Regarding other chipsets, if you want the fastest possible AP on OpenBSD > > your best option right now is to get a bwfm(4) device, which offloads almost > > all of its 802.11 operation

Re: WLAN throughput less 10Mb/s

2020-04-14 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On 2020-04-14 09:21, Stefan Sperling wrote: > Regarding other chipsets, if you want the fastest possible AP on OpenBSD > your best option right now is to get a bwfm(4) device, which offloads almost > all of its 802.11 operation into a firmware blob running in the embedded > system on the device. I

Re: WLAN throughput less 10Mb/s

2020-04-14 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 10:42:18PM +0200, Mario Theodoridis wrote: > > Also, athn(4) does not support Tx aggregation yet, and 40 MHz channels are > > not yet suppored either. In practice this means the driver won't be > > noticably > > faster in 11n mode than it is in 11a/g modes. For now, I would

Re: WLAN throughput less 10Mb/s

2020-04-13 Thread Mario Theodoridis
On 13.04.2020 20:34, Stefan Sperling wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 07:03:27PM +0200, Mario Theodoridis wrote: Hi everyone. I'm running a APU2 board with an Atheros wlan chipset. I've been plagued by rather slow WLAN throughput rates < 10Mb/s. Is that normal or not. If not, how would i go abo

Re: WLAN throughput less 10Mb/s

2020-04-13 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 07:03:27PM +0200, Mario Theodoridis wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I'm running a APU2 board with an Atheros wlan chipset. > I've been plagued by rather slow WLAN throughput rates < 10Mb/s. > Is that normal or not. If not, how would i go about debugging this? > Any other info i s