Slow ral(4) 802.11b in hostap mode?

2007-09-19 Thread Damon McMahon
Greetings, My 4.1/i386 box is a wireless access point using ral(4) in 802.11b hostap mode and secured by IPsec. On both MacOS X and WinXP clients I have noted consistent wifi speeds maxing out in the low 70+ KBps range whereas on the OpenBSD box itself a download speed over its pppoe(4) c

Re: Slow ral(4) 802.11b in hostap mode?

2007-09-19 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Damon McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also, while top(1) shows that the CPU is 95% idle the ssh terminal > seems very sluggish when the ral(4) connection is maxed out, even > when it's another host that's maxing it out (i.e. not the host on > which the ssh client is operating). It's sort of

Re: Slow ral(4) 802.11b in hostap mode?

2007-09-19 Thread Jurjen Oskam
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 12:07:02AM +0930, Damon McMahon wrote: > I'm not sure how to troubleshoot this further, but any advice would > be appreciated. As I've just mentioned, I experienced poor performance on a ral-based card in hostap mode, until I connected a high-quality antenna on a proper

Re: Slow ral(4) 802.11b in hostap mode?

2007-09-21 Thread Damon McMahon
Thanks for the responses from Peter and others. The CAVEAT seems only to apply to the USB variant - mine is a PCI: # dmesg| grep ral0 ral0 at pci0 dev 15 function 0 "Ralink RT2560" rev 0x01: irq 5, address 00:13:d3:6a:bb:9d ral0: MAC/BBP RT2560 (rev 0x04), RF RT2525 I've tried setting specif

Re: Slow ral(4) 802.11b in hostap mode?

2007-09-22 Thread Kevin Cheng
ss 00:05:9e:84:9c:c8 ral0: MAC/BBP RT2561C, RF RT2527 RT2560 is becoming old now. Kevin > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Damon McMahon > Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 9:42 AM > To: misc list > Subject: