Hi, I have a gentoo system and the latest Ath5k drivers from compat-wireless. I downloaded them about a week back. I understand that the tarball is updated daily.
I have three Ubiquiti SRC cards (AR5212). I have configured one of them as an AP in 802.11a mode using channel 149. The other two are stations connected to the AP. I fixed the rate to 6Mbps. I have an iperf server running on the AP which accepts UDP traffic. One of the stations sends UDP packets at a rate of 6Mbps to the AP. Because there are no surrounding APs in 802.11a mode, the band is very quiet. However, I am surprised that I get 2.6% packet loss when I run the above mentioned experiment. The distance of both stations is no more than 10 meters from the AP. Also, the txpower for both STAs is 30dbm. One STA sends UDP packets to the AP at 6Mbps for 30 seconds and the report that iperf generates is as follows: [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth Jitter Lost/Total Datagrams [ 3] 0.0-30.1 sec 18.3 MBytes 5.11 Mbits/sec 0.301 ms 352/13434 (2.6%) Considering that there is no activity on this channel except the beacons of AP and probe requests/responses from the other STA, how can 352 packets get lost? To make things worse, I tried the above experiment with minimal bandwidth. Very oddly, the results are as follows: [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth Jitter Lost/Total Datagrams [ 3] 0.0-31.0 sec 44.5 KBytes 11.8 Kbits/sec 0.060 ms 1/ 32 (3.1%) Why would even a packet get lost at this very slow data rate? I have repeated the above several times, and it always results in about the same numbers. Earlier, I had also noticed that if I ping one STA from the other STA, about every 10 seconds, the ping response time jumps from 0.8 milliseconds to 25 milliseconds. I would be really grateful if I can get some feedback fro myou guys on this so that we can fix whatever is messing things up here. Thanks, -Qasim
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