On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 07:21:50PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 10:32:23PM +0100, Tom Murphy wrote: > > Stefan, > > > > Your patch works well on my system: > > > > ral0 at pci0 dev 14 function 0 "Ralink RT2661" rev 0x00: irq 10, address > > 00:14:85:d5:39:bb > > ral0: MAC/BBP RT2661D, RF RT2529 (MIMO XR) > > > > Only problem is downloading from the net is extremely slow. Benchmarks > > have it at 512 KB/sec as opposed to 10 megabits/s. > > > > This is (internet) -> OpenBSD -> ral0 -> wifi client > > > > But it doesn't crash or bring up OACTIVE flag anymore which is > > fantastic.. however, it's a little to slow to use with any regularity. > > > > Uploads are fine (wifi -> ral(4) -> OpenBSD -> out to the net). > > I've already replied to Tom in private requesting some additional > testing but I would still be interested in other reports about > transmission speed issues with ral. > > I've also noticed that my ral-based AP can be ridiculously slow. > I believe this is a separate bug which is independent of the OACTIVE > lock-up problem. > > Is anyone else out there seeing this, too? > > IIRC dragonfly have some ral performance fixes in their git history > which haven't been ported back to OpenBSD yet. >
I gave up on my ral ap a couple of years ago due to ridiculous slowness, but the athn replacement was just as slow. Got a new motherboard going into the firewall shortly and may be motivated to recheck the wireless performance of -current then. .... Ken
