Thanks Mohammed,

I am a newbie in wifi driver dev.  Could you guide me how to specify
the rate control algorithm?

I also observed much better uplink performance than downlink.  The
uplink could be up to 28Mbps.  But isn't this a little bit
unintuitive?

thanks

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Mohammed Shafi
<shafi.wirel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Tao Jin <jintao....@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I have a Linksys WRT160NL router, which has a 802.11n chip, and runs
>> OpenWRT firmware with ath9k driver.  This driver is built from
>> compat-wireless-2010-12-16 snapshot.
>>
>> I set up the router as g mode only, and rate control algorithm is by
>> default minstrel-ht.
>>
>> I test iperf UDP downlink throughput from the router to a laptop.  The
>> performance is not quite consistent, and fluctuate quite a bit,
>> ranging from 10Mbps - 20Mbps at most time. There is not likely to be
>> high interference  in my test environment.  And the two nodes are
>> placed pretty close to each other.
>>
>> My questions are:
>>
>> 1.  Could any developer provide some reference performance result for
>> ath9k at this stage?
>> 2.  Will there be any known issue if I set the driver to operate in g
>> mode only, but use ath9k and minstrel-ht rate algorithm?
>
> May be you can try with ath9k-rate control.
> If there is no interference I could not figure whats the problem.
> Generally I observe down link < up link throughput
> I could say we should get at least 21Mbps on an average
>
>>
>>
>> Thanks tons in advance!
>>
>> jintao
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