I find it hard to believe that after numerous attempts to update the ticket
in question (12720) and having mailed the group thrice, that there isn't a
single response to the aforementioned issue of half bandwidth.
Is there no one with ath9k and relayd expertise ? I'm sure some of the more
recent ath10k developments have been fruitful and will benefit the
community, just as a fix for this issue would benefit some ath9k/relayd
users.

If I had enough driver development expertise I would fix it myself. Please
do not take treat this response as a rant, as I am all very thankful for
being able to use OpenWrt on my devices.
However, this half bandwidth issue is a bit of a niggle that I'd like to
eliminate.

If anyone can chime in with something helpful it would be "greatly"
appreciated.

Thank you,
Chirag


On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Chirag Chhatriwala <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I presented this problem a while back and it seems like it went nowhere.
> I have a couple of dual band 600 mbps routers based on ar71xx and I've set
> them up to use the tutorial here:
> http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/recipes/relayclient
>
> I've tried setting up the bridge on 2.4 GHz and also on the 5 GHz bands
> but every time. In both instances, the bridge router connects to the main
> router at full 40 MHz bandwidth. I've enabled noscan option just to ensure
> proper 40 MHz connectivity.
>
> However, all WiFi clients (laptops, my smart tv, google tv player, etc.
> all of them being abgn + 40 MHz bandwidth capable), can connect only at
> 20MHz bandwidth to the bridge router.
> If these WiFi devices connect to the main router, they connect at full 40
> MHz bandwidth. I have verified this placing the laptop and google tv player
> physically closer to the pseudobridge. LUCI also shows the devices
> connected to the bridge and their respective bandwidth is always 20MHz.
> LUCI also shows connection data rates always at or below 130mbps.
>
> When placed closer to the main router, these devices (laptop + google tv
> player) connect to it and the LUCI web admin status shows 40MHz bandwidth
> and connection rates in the 200+ mbps (peaking at 300 mbps limit).
>
> Apparently, devices with a max of data rate of 130mbps (when connected to
> the main router) get choked when their max data rate gets limited to 65mbps
> (by connecting to the pseudobridge) as a result of this problem.
>
> This has been tried and proven with 2.4 GHz alone and also at 5 GHz alone.
> I'm all out of ideas.
> I raised this ticket long ago: https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/12720
> I sent several emails regarding this as well to no avail:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg18850.html
>
> This is by far the only wrinkle I've faced in dealing with OpenWrt on my
> routers. Everything else so far has been spot on and rock solid (knock on
> wood).
>
> If anyone can share their thoughts or help narrow down the cause of this
> bug, it would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Chirag
>
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