On Sun, 20 Apr 2025, Peter Miller wrote:
Hi Peter,
I saw the call for wifi testing [1], and tested. I thought I was one of the
people not connecting to 11ac. Then I forced 11ac in /etc/rc.conf and was
able to connect with 11ac, but, I have to restart networking to get it
working; sometimes multiple restarts.
Sometimes some repeated
ifconfig wlan0 scan
as super user will also do it (you'll notice when it doesn't return
immediately). Might be less destructive than restarting networking.
I presume it should auto select 11ac
and also work on boot without needing to be restarted.
Yes. In theory.
My wifi is provided by a linksys velop whw03 [2] which has 2.4 and
5ghz enabled.
To use 11ac I have the following line in /etc/rc.conf
ifconfig_wlan0="mode 11ac WPA DHCP"
Once 11ac connects, I was able to get 300+ mbits using ookla-speedtest and
iperf3 locally.
All the info below is before I forced/added 11ac to rc.conf
Your scan reuslt only shows the 2.4Ghz SSID if that was all. That's
likely the issue.
Can you at some point also post the sysctl output and the scan result
when you are connected to 11a[c]? Would be interesting to know.
/bz
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Bjoern A. Zeeb r15:7
