On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Petr Janda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > Ive been experiencing slow downs on my workstation wireless on DragonFly and > FreeBSD (freebsd is even worse at this). Basically it runs at crawling speed > although the apprent speed is 18MB right now.
The rate shown by ifconfig if for packet size < 256. > > ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > inet6 fe80::20f:b5ff:fefa:9196%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 > inet 192.168.1.50 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 > ether 00:0f:b5:fa:91:96 > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (OFDM/18Mbps) > status: associated > ssid homenetwork channel 11 bssid 00:19:db:0a:39:e6 > authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 37 bmiss 7 protmode CTS burst > bintval 100 > > Interestingly my laptop which also has an atheros chip doesnt experience any > slow downs neither in DragonFly or FreeBSD. When I reboot my workstation to > Windows XP it works absolutelty flawlessly. I know Ive had this issue before > and Sephe made me a patch which improved it but it still is not perfect and > lately its been really bugging me especially when Im sshing to my server next > door to do my job and it keeps slowing down to crawl, and then speeding up > and slow down and it goes like this forever. > > What kind of tcpdumps and debugging would you like to help you find the > problem? You could grab an ieee802_11 dump and an ieee802_11_radio dump for me. And please post output of 'ifconfig ath0 list scan' after you have associated with the AP. Best Regards, sephe -- Live Free or Die
