On 11 January 2012 10:55, Helmut Schaa <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Roman Yeryomin <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> I just faced the same issue - changing HT20 to HT40+/- doesn't give
>> anything but this error:
>>
>> 20/40 MHz operation not permitted on channel pri=1 sec=5 based on
>> overlapping BSSes
>>
>> This message appears whenever which channel I use in HT40 mode.
>> `iw dev wlan0 station dump' reports 130 Mbit/s and real data transfer
>> speed stays the same (about 5 MB/s average) both in HT20 and HT40
>> mode.
>>
>> I went a bit futher and tested another openwrt based firmware - fonera
>> - with ralink driver. Although connect speed was reported the same
>> (130Mbit/s) actual transfer speed was much faster - about 7.5 - 8
>> MB/s. The main configuration difference I noticed is that you can set
>> 802.11n only mode in fonera.
>>
>> So is it an opensource driver issue with HT modes or inability to set
>> 802.11n only mode?
>
> Not sure how much difference 11n-only would make but rt2x00 might
> not yet be as advanced as the original ralink drivers are.
>
> However, in my testing I can get up to 60Mbps (=7-8MB/s) under good
> channel conditions without running 11n only mode using HT20 (and with
> a number of pending patches applied). Haven't done much testing with
> HT40 though ...
>

Nice! Where can I get those patches to test?

Thanks,
Roman
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