Re: [ath9k-devel] Interpreting link quality of cards driven by ath9k to estimate usable bandwidth?

2013-04-05 Thread Steffen Dettmer
Hi, thanks a lot for your helpful mail. I made several tests and good progress, thanks to you :) * Holger Schurig [mailto:holgerschu...@gmail.com] wrote: Hi, I wouldn't use iwconfig and link quality. iwconfig is outdated and virtually unmaintained since years. Ohh, good to know... it is

Re: [ath9k-devel] Interpreting link quality of cards driven by ath9k to estimate usable bandwidth?

2013-04-04 Thread Holger Schurig
Hi, I wouldn't use iwconfig and link quality. iwconfig is outdated and virtually unmaintained since years. It uses the deprecated WEXT kernel API, which is just emulation by mac80211-based drivers like ath9k for such antique tools. Linux distributions should really get rid of that stuff. The

[ath9k-devel] Interpreting link quality of cards driven by ath9k to estimate usable bandwidth?

2013-04-03 Thread Steffen Dettmer
Hi, man iwconfig tells, Link quality... depends totally on the driver and hardware. I would like to know how to interpret the value for WPEA-127N driven by ath9k - ideally to have a base value for estimation of useable bandwidth (i.e. how much data could be sent and received per time). Is