On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Thomas Pedersen <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Zaki,
>
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:11:26AM +0800, Zaki wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > I would like to highlight some observation that i notice in my mesh
> > network.  Setting up 10 nodes is easy, so they are now working 24/7.  The
> > exercise i did is for them to ping each other.  While mostly they are
> > stable, there are moments where Ping Timeout happen for some seconds
> before
> > the ping resumes.  It happened in all the 10 nodes randomly.  Then, i use
> > Fluke Aircheck WiFi Tester to see what is happening during that time.
>  The
> > results are quite surprising to me :
> > 1) The beacon detection (beeps on the device) is very random interval and
> > most of its interval is almost around 1 sec each. Sometimes a long pause
> > between the beeps.
>
> Assuming you're using some ath9k cards for testing, this patch:
>
> https://github.com/cozybit/open80211s/commit/380bf3ad4c2ccd92658943e978f8d942611a3d6d
> might help with a more stable beacon interval. If you do test and notice
> an improvement, please let us know.
>

Why would this change beacon regularity?  In the adhoc case I thought the
beacon xmit was handled entirely in the radio while for the ap operation it
requires the host to post the beacon frame at SWBA?   I thought using AP
mode was to fix multi-vif support?

If beacons are being delayed due to the channel being busy then that's a
separate issue--unless the AIFS parameters for AP are different than ADHOC
operation.


> > 2) 2.4G and 5G are having the same behaviour.
> > 3) When i tuned the Fluke to detect my normal AP, the beeps are
> > consistently in a very fast interval. No pause at all in between.
> >
> > I was testing it using 0.5release and changed to the latest
> compat-wireless
> > available and all the settings are default. Both gave the same result. I
> am
> > suspecting some issue on the beacon generation but not sure which part is
> > causing the problem.  Is there anybody else experience the same
> observation
> > like me?.
> >
> > Rgds,
> > Zack.
>
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