On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 10:11 PM, Ali Abedi <a2ab...@uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > Hi, > I am writing this response to my own question since I have found a > workaround for this problem and this may help others as well. > So the problem is that if you have an interface wlan0 in managed mode > and then add another interface wlan1 in monitor mode it lowers your > outgoing throughput. It does not affect the incoming traffic though. The > trick is to add the monitor interface wlan1 then remove wlan0 by using > "iw dev wlan0 del" and then create wlan0 again. This way the incoming > and outgoing traffic is not affected by the monitor interface. This can > be caused by a bug in the driver. Those folks who know more about this > part of the driver may figure out what is going on after seeing this > solution.
sure, lets take a look at this(new year). if its a straight forward one we should go ahead and fix it. > > Best, > Ali > > On 23/10/2012 3:06 PM, Ali Abedi wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I asked this question once before but didn't get a satisfying answer. In >> our experiments, with two laptops running Ath9k driver we get about 29 >> Mbps bandwidth (802.11g configuration + UDP traffic), but when the >> monitor mode interface is enabled on the sender the throughput drops to >> 25 Mbps. This is not a performance issue. The performance is unaffected >> if monitor mode interface is enabled on the receiver (no monitor >> interface on sender). I really appropriate your answer. >> >> Regards, >> Ali Abedi >> _______________________________________________ >> ath9k-devel mailing list >> ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org >> https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > ath9k-devel mailing list > ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org > https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel -- thanks, shafi _______________________________________________ ath9k-devel mailing list ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel
