I checked for openwrt support but your AP has a relatively uncommon Realtek SoC and it seems fairly unlikely to happen so you're probably stuck with the vendor firmware.
Maybe try forcing "mode 11n" or "mode 11g" with ifconfig and see if that's any better. On 2023-12-08, Lévai Dániel <l...@ecentrum.hu> wrote: > On Thursday, December 7th, 2023 at 17:10, Stefan Sperling <s...@stsp.name> > wrote: >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 07, 2023 at 03:39:33PM +0000, Lévai, Dániel wrote: >> >> > Hi all! >> > >> > Recently my trusty T410 died (had iwn(4) in it) and had to switch to an >> > E450 - but this has iwm(4). >> > Never had any issues with iwn(4) and iwm(4) seems to operate perfectly >> > fine in some scenarios, e.g. speedtest.net indicates 100/100Mbit down/up >> > speed. >> >> > But downloading a base74.tgz set takes little more than 30 minutes - in >> > firefox and in console with ftp(1). >> >> >> So you are getting 100/100 Mbit on iwm(4) in a speed test, and only >> downloading >> base74.tgz is slow? > > Well, not quite - speedtest.net (whatever it does) seems to report good > results, browsing however is generally slow, but I can't really set precise > expectations for let's say "opening youtube.com". It's just slow compared to > other machines on the same network. > The most concrete thing I could think of was to download the base set which > was surprisingly slow during the first upgrade after installation. That's why > I started to investigate; this I can measure and report. > > So generally speaking, everything is slow on iwm0 *except* what speedtest.net > seems to report. > >> The speed test being successful would imply that the wifi >> layer is working just fine. If so then something else must be messing with >> your base74.tgz download attempts. >> >> What happens when you download base74.tgz over ethernet? > > No issue, perfect 100Mbit. > >> Or with iwm(4) via a different AP? >> Or with iwm(4) via a different ISP? > > Thanks for the tips! > I went ahead and tried my cell phone's mobile hotspot. > Even though speedtest.net only reported 30/15Mbit down/up, the general > browsing experience was much better and managed to squeeze out 2-3MByte/sec > while downloading the base set from various mirrors. > > Switching back to my home AP seems to be the issue. > It's a Zyxel NBG6615 (end of service by now, no newer firmware). > Is there any debug sysctl's I can set on the laptop that could prove useful > in troubleshooting this? Maybe different settings for iwm(4) or the AP? > > Daniel > > -- Please keep replies on the mailing list.
