Re: iwn: Intel Centrino 6205 bad 11n performance

2014-08-23 Thread Adrian Chadd
Please file a PR. I may end up getting around to it.

I don't know whether it's 11n TX or 11n RX, but we should really debug it.


-a


On 23 August 2014 12:19, Johannes Dieterich  wrote:
> Dear Adrian
>
> thanks a lot for the suggestion! Removing ht indeed improves the throughput
> to 1.7 MB/s. Still far from the maximum of my uplink but sufficient for the
> time being and much improved.
>
> Concerning the non-existing maintainer: does it in this case even make sense
> to file a PR?
>
> Given how common the Intel WLAN NICs (unfortunately) are and how some
> notebooks have white lists making a change to e.g. ath impossible, it is a
> real bummer that nobody maintains it. Thanks for your work on ath, btw,
> those NICs are working great nowadays!
>
> Thanks again for the help!
>
> Johannes
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Adrian Chadd  wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> You can try disabling 11n (ifconfig -ht) but besides that, there's no
>> real iwn maintainer or anyone who wants to get really nitty gritty
>> into what the driver is doing. So until that happens, I think we're
>> short of luck. :(
>>
>>
>> -a
>>
>>
>> On 19 August 2014 12:53, Johannes Dieterich 
>> wrote:
>> > Dear all,
>> >
>> > I have a Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 WLAN NIC in my Thinkpad using
>> > iwn.
>> >
>> > iwn0@pci0:3:0:0:class=0x028000 card=0x13118086 chip=0x00858086
>> > rev=0x34
>> > hdr=0x00
>> > vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
>> > device = 'Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak]'
>> > class  = network
>> >
>> > Unfortunately, I only get a rather bad speed using CURRENT (r270098) out
>> > of
>> > the chip. It is connected to an 11n (on the 2.4 GHz band) network:
>> >
>> > wlan0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu
>> > 1500
>> > nd6 options=29
>> > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet MCS mode 11ng
>> > status: associated
>> > ssid X channel 4 (2427 MHz 11g ht/20) bssid XX
>> > country US authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF
>> > TKIP 2:128-bit txpower 15 bmiss 10 scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl
>> > 300
>> > bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 64 protmode CTS ampdulimit 64k
>> > ampdudensity 8 -amsdutx amsdurx shortgi wme roaming MANUAL
>> >
>> > I get a maximum of 900 KB/s of throughput (both in/out, approximated by
>> > copying a large file using scp), within the network and to the outside
>> > world. Running SuSE Linux on the notebook allows me to easily saturate
>> > my
>> > uplink at > 3MB/s, didn't then further check within the network. I get
>> > no
>> > log messages on FBSD from iwn and I am not located in a particularly
>> > noisy
>> > neighborhood.
>> >
>> > The only performance issue I can find with this chip is one old report
>> > on
>> > Ubuntu (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1949571), where the 11n
>> > seemed to be the culprit in the driver/firmware. Could this be an issue
>> > for
>> > us as well (firmware problem?)?
>> >
>> > As my workhorse is FreeBSD, I'd love to fix this issue. How can I
>> > further
>> > debug this issue and/or provide more data? I know that the status of iwn
>> > in
>> > FBSD is difficult ATM but maybe there is hope?
>> >
>> > Best
>> >
>> > Johannes
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Re: iwn: Intel Centrino 6205 bad 11n performance

2014-08-23 Thread Johannes Dieterich
Dear Adrian

thanks a lot for the suggestion! Removing ht indeed improves the throughput
to 1.7 MB/s. Still far from the maximum of my uplink but sufficient for the
time being and much improved.

Concerning the non-existing maintainer: does it in this case even make
sense to file a PR?

Given how common the Intel WLAN NICs (unfortunately) are and how some
notebooks have white lists making a change to e.g. ath impossible, it is a
real bummer that nobody maintains it. Thanks for your work on ath, btw,
those NICs are working great nowadays!

Thanks again for the help!

Johannes


On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Adrian Chadd  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> You can try disabling 11n (ifconfig -ht) but besides that, there's no
> real iwn maintainer or anyone who wants to get really nitty gritty
> into what the driver is doing. So until that happens, I think we're
> short of luck. :(
>
>
> -a
>
>
> On 19 August 2014 12:53, Johannes Dieterich 
> wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I have a Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 WLAN NIC in my Thinkpad using
> iwn.
> >
> > iwn0@pci0:3:0:0:class=0x028000 card=0x13118086 chip=0x00858086
> rev=0x34
> > hdr=0x00
> > vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
> > device = 'Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak]'
> > class  = network
> >
> > Unfortunately, I only get a rather bad speed using CURRENT (r270098) out
> of
> > the chip. It is connected to an 11n (on the 2.4 GHz band) network:
> >
> > wlan0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu
> 1500
> > nd6 options=29
> > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet MCS mode 11ng
> > status: associated
> > ssid X channel 4 (2427 MHz 11g ht/20) bssid XX
> > country US authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF
> > TKIP 2:128-bit txpower 15 bmiss 10 scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl
> 300
> > bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 64 protmode CTS ampdulimit 64k
> > ampdudensity 8 -amsdutx amsdurx shortgi wme roaming MANUAL
> >
> > I get a maximum of 900 KB/s of throughput (both in/out, approximated by
> > copying a large file using scp), within the network and to the outside
> > world. Running SuSE Linux on the notebook allows me to easily saturate my
> > uplink at > 3MB/s, didn't then further check within the network. I get no
> > log messages on FBSD from iwn and I am not located in a particularly
> noisy
> > neighborhood.
> >
> > The only performance issue I can find with this chip is one old report on
> > Ubuntu (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1949571), where the 11n
> > seemed to be the culprit in the driver/firmware. Could this be an issue
> for
> > us as well (firmware problem?)?
> >
> > As my workhorse is FreeBSD, I'd love to fix this issue. How can I further
> > debug this issue and/or provide more data? I know that the status of iwn
> in
> > FBSD is difficult ATM but maybe there is hope?
> >
> > Best
> >
> > Johannes
> > ___
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Re: iwn: Intel Centrino 6205 bad 11n performance

2014-08-19 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi,

You can try disabling 11n (ifconfig -ht) but besides that, there's no
real iwn maintainer or anyone who wants to get really nitty gritty
into what the driver is doing. So until that happens, I think we're
short of luck. :(


-a


On 19 August 2014 12:53, Johannes Dieterich  wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have a Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 WLAN NIC in my Thinkpad using iwn.
>
> iwn0@pci0:3:0:0:class=0x028000 card=0x13118086 chip=0x00858086 rev=0x34
> hdr=0x00
> vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
> device = 'Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak]'
> class  = network
>
> Unfortunately, I only get a rather bad speed using CURRENT (r270098) out of
> the chip. It is connected to an 11n (on the 2.4 GHz band) network:
>
> wlan0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500
> nd6 options=29
> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet MCS mode 11ng
> status: associated
> ssid X channel 4 (2427 MHz 11g ht/20) bssid XX
> country US authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF
> TKIP 2:128-bit txpower 15 bmiss 10 scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 300
> bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 64 protmode CTS ampdulimit 64k
> ampdudensity 8 -amsdutx amsdurx shortgi wme roaming MANUAL
>
> I get a maximum of 900 KB/s of throughput (both in/out, approximated by
> copying a large file using scp), within the network and to the outside
> world. Running SuSE Linux on the notebook allows me to easily saturate my
> uplink at > 3MB/s, didn't then further check within the network. I get no
> log messages on FBSD from iwn and I am not located in a particularly noisy
> neighborhood.
>
> The only performance issue I can find with this chip is one old report on
> Ubuntu (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1949571), where the 11n
> seemed to be the culprit in the driver/firmware. Could this be an issue for
> us as well (firmware problem?)?
>
> As my workhorse is FreeBSD, I'd love to fix this issue. How can I further
> debug this issue and/or provide more data? I know that the status of iwn in
> FBSD is difficult ATM but maybe there is hope?
>
> Best
>
> Johannes
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iwn: Intel Centrino 6205 bad 11n performance

2014-08-19 Thread Johannes Dieterich
Dear all,

I have a Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 WLAN NIC in my Thinkpad using iwn.

iwn0@pci0:3:0:0:class=0x028000 card=0x13118086 chip=0x00858086 rev=0x34
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = 'Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak]'
class  = network

Unfortunately, I only get a rather bad speed using CURRENT (r270098) out of
the chip. It is connected to an 11n (on the 2.4 GHz band) network:

wlan0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500
nd6 options=29
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet MCS mode 11ng
status: associated
ssid X channel 4 (2427 MHz 11g ht/20) bssid XX
country US authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF
TKIP 2:128-bit txpower 15 bmiss 10 scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 300
bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 64 protmode CTS ampdulimit 64k
ampdudensity 8 -amsdutx amsdurx shortgi wme roaming MANUAL

I get a maximum of 900 KB/s of throughput (both in/out, approximated by
copying a large file using scp), within the network and to the outside
world. Running SuSE Linux on the notebook allows me to easily saturate my
uplink at > 3MB/s, didn't then further check within the network. I get no
log messages on FBSD from iwn and I am not located in a particularly noisy
neighborhood.

The only performance issue I can find with this chip is one old report on
Ubuntu (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1949571), where the 11n
seemed to be the culprit in the driver/firmware. Could this be an issue for
us as well (firmware problem?)?

As my workhorse is FreeBSD, I'd love to fix this issue. How can I further
debug this issue and/or provide more data? I know that the status of iwn in
FBSD is difficult ATM but maybe there is hope?

Best

Johannes
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