Re: [ath5k-devel] high and unpredictable transmission delays

2010-04-19 Thread Tomáš Dulík
Ahmed forgot to tell us: what method is he using to measure the delay? If he is using some RF measurement equipment (e.g. RF vector analyzer or I/Q demodulator+osciloscope) and he has the wifi card antenna output connected to the measurement equipment by a coaxial cable, then there should be n

Re: [ath5k-devel] high and unpredictable transmission delays

2010-04-18 Thread Holger Schurig
> If you remove the antenna of your card, wind the receive gain down to the > minimum possible value, your card card will receive the minimum of packets > from other boxes. Wouldn't it be even better to do a proper termination between ground and signal, e.g. by a shielded 50 Ohm resistor? (Not s

Re: [ath5k-devel] high and unpredictable transmission delays

2010-04-18 Thread Derek Smithies
Hi, On Thu, 15 Apr 2010, Nabeel Ahmed wrote: > Thanks for your fast response. I did disable virtual carrier sense as > well. But, I still see these unpredictable delays. Can you think of what > possibly the hardware may be doing during these transmission periods > that could introduce such delays?

Re: [ath5k-devel] high and unpredictable transmission delays

2010-04-16 Thread Nabeel Ahmed
Hi, I'm a little confused by what scan world means? Can you elaborate on what you mean by that? I'm sure there could be a way to inject (or intercept) raw packets to/from the driver (most likely through the ioctl interface). However, they would still need to go through the transmit chain (i.e

Re: [ath5k-devel] high and unpredictable transmission delays

2010-04-16 Thread Nabeel Ahmed
Hi Bruno, Thanks for your response. I checked the busy counter values and indeed they count down more slowly when the noise floor is raised. So, raising the noise floor does make the receiver more immune to environmental noise. Regarding periodic calibration, the scheduling I'm doing happens at

Re: [ath5k-devel] high and unpredictable transmission delays

2010-04-16 Thread RHS Linux User
Hi, Two thoughts: 1. Scan world to reset I&Q and noise floor and other params. 2. Scan world to look for other special signals. Wake on lan, radar, set interference mode, etc. Comment: The hardware/software MUST have a place where simple raw packets can be intercepted and

Re: [ath5k-devel] high and unpredictable transmission delays

2010-04-16 Thread shashi raj singh
Hi Nabeel Did you disable the backoff, also try reducing the DIFS period. I think you cannot make it zero but up to a minimum possible value. Shashi Send instant messages to your online friends http://asia.messenger.yahoo.com ___ ath5k-devel mailing

Re: [ath5k-devel] high and unpredictable transmission delays

2010-04-15 Thread Bruno Randolf
On Friday 16 April 2010 03:43:30 Nabeel Ahmed wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm wondering if someone can provide me some hints to tackle a problem > I've been hitting my head on for the last couple of days. I've been > working with the ath5k code for the last couple of weeks and am running > into some perf

Re: [ath5k-devel] high and unpredictable transmission delays

2010-04-15 Thread Bruno Randolf
On Friday 16 April 2010 03:43:30 Nabeel Ahmed wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm wondering if someone can provide me some hints to tackle a problem > I've been hitting my head on for the last couple of days. I've been > working with the ath5k code for the last couple of weeks and am running > into some perf

Re: [ath5k-devel] high and unpredictable transmission delays

2010-04-15 Thread Benoit PAPILLAULT
Nabeel Ahmed a écrit : > Hi Benoit, > > Thanks for your fast response. I did disable virtual carrier sense as > well. But, I still see these unpredictable delays. Can you think of > what possibly the hardware may be doing during these transmission > periods that could introduce such delays? > >

Re: [ath5k-devel] high and unpredictable transmission delays

2010-04-15 Thread Nabeel Ahmed
Hi Benoit, Thanks for your fast response. I did disable virtual carrier sense as well. But, I still see these unpredictable delays. Can you think of what possibly the hardware may be doing during these transmission periods that could introduce such delays? Thanks. - Nabeel Ahmed. Benoit P

Re: [ath5k-devel] high and unpredictable transmission delays

2010-04-15 Thread Benoit PAPILLAULT
Nabeel Ahmed a écrit : > Hi All, > > I'm wondering if someone can provide me some hints to tackle a problem > I've been hitting my head on for the last couple of days. I've been > working with the ath5k code for the last couple of weeks and am running > into some performance issues with the driv

[ath5k-devel] high and unpredictable transmission delays

2010-04-15 Thread Nabeel Ahmed
Hi All, I'm wondering if someone can provide me some hints to tackle a problem I've been hitting my head on for the last couple of days. I've been working with the ath5k code for the last couple of weeks and am running into some performance issues with the driver. My problem involves schedulin