On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 10:39 -0500, Bob Copeland wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 4:23 AM, Maxim Levitsky <maximlevit...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Yes, with your 4 patches applied.
> > It seems even worse now, as this happened twice already.
>
> Can you try with just patch #4 applied (continue in case of gain failure).
> I'd be interested to know how much/if the frequency of MAC lockup changes.
Will try
>
> > Noise might degrade performance, but do you think it might cause all
> > packets to be missed?
>
> Maybe not all, but enough. If we can't tune the channel then the radio
> won't get the ACKs from the medium, consequently ack failures are sent
> to the rate control algorithm and a lower rate will be tried. Also note
> there's not a whole lot of difference between 802.11 B/G channels between
> 1 and 11. If your AP supports 802.11A, then you can do testing on a
> mostly quiet freq band.
>
But I have looked at rate_stats.
There are 0 packets that are success for rates > 24
I can set rates above 18 via iwconfig, and it does seem to tell the
driver to use it, but yet nothing is ever sent via card then
Anyway, I'll do more careful testing here.
Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky
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