On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 10:30:27AM +0100, Caolan McMahon wrote:
> I'm seeing very slow wireless networking speeds on OpenBSD 6.1 using
> the iwm driver.
> 
> $ dmesg | grep iwm0
> iwm0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 7265" rev 0x59, msi
> iwm0: hw rev 0x210, fw ver 16.242414.0, address 60:57:18:91:f1:86
> 
> I struggle to get more than ~30-40kb/s download speed. Running Linux
> on the same machine and network I could easily get 1mb/s or more. I've
> also noticed the network will appear to hang for seconds at a time,
> without pages loading in the browser.
> 
> I found some posts on this list from November 2016 which seem to
> describe a similar problem with the driver in OpenBSD 6.0, but
> according to that the fixes should be available in OpenBSD 6.1.
> 
> Wired networking works fine.
> 
> Is there anything I can try on OpenBSD 6.1 before having to re-test on 
> -current?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Caolan
> 

Please test -current.

Or you could try the following diffs on a 6.1 source tree but I have
not tested that and don't want to support it, so you are on your own.
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=149399149502787&q=raw
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=149399299003411&q=raw

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