Re: Performance of AR9287

2012-09-22 Thread Adrian Chadd
.. and yes, what I'd really like to do is find someone who wants to look after "long distance links" with atheros hardware (and has the kit to do so!) and help me fix up the coverage class code to work in a more generic fashion, for all chips. I can tell people what to do if they'd like to hack on

Re: Performance of AR9287

2012-09-22 Thread Adrian Chadd
Ah. athctrl.sh ? adrian On 22 September 2012 02:04, Johann Hugo wrote: > I'm still using a utility from Sam. > > > > athctrl -d 8000 > > Setup IFS parameters on interface ath0 for 8000 meter p-2-p link > > dev.ath.0.slottime=36 > > dev.ath.0.acktimeout=75 > > dev.ath.0.ctstimeout=75 > > > > A

Re: Performance of AR9287

2012-09-22 Thread Johann Hugo
I'm still using a utility from Sam. athctrl -d 8000 Setup IFS parameters on interface ath0 for 8000 meter p-2-p link dev.ath.0.slottime=36 dev.ath.0.acktimeout=75 dev.ath.0.ctstimeout=75 Are these settings still good ? Are there any way do detect these automatically ? Johann On Saturday 22 Sep

Re: Performance of AR9287

2012-09-22 Thread Adrian Chadd
I assume you've tweaked the ack, slot, rtsctstimeout? The 11n rate control code is a little more jumpy. I've fixed that in recent checkins. It's not optimal but now it's not as jumpy as before. Update to -HEAD, then use 'athratestats' on the peer MAC address. It's quite useful to see what's actua

Re: Performance of AR9287

2012-09-22 Thread Johann Hugo
On Saturday 22 September 2012 02:05:23 Derrick Edwards wrote: > Thanks again for looking into this. > My main concern was the range of network performance that I was getting > when the laptop was right in front of the access point. As you can see > bandwith varied greatly. I don't know if it

Re: Performance of AR9287

2012-09-21 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 21 September 2012 17:30, Derrick Edwards wrote: > Wireless N, if any. Thanks for the info. AR5416 and AR9280. I suggest the AR9280 if you can. The later NICs (AR93xx, AR94xx, AR95xx) aren't supported at the moment. I have working code here but I can't release it just yet. Thanks, Adrian _

Re: Performance of AR9287

2012-09-21 Thread Derrick Edwards
On Friday, September 21, 2012 08:24:27 PM Adrian Chadd wrote: > Hi, > > The AR9287 is a 2GHz only NIC. > > > > adrian Thanks alot. I did not know that. What NIC supports both 2GHz and 5GHz Wireless N, if any. Thanks for the info. ___ freebsd-wir

Re: Performance of AR9287

2012-09-21 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, The AR9287 is a 2GHz only NIC. adrian ___ freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-wireless-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Performance of AR9287

2012-09-21 Thread Derrick Edwards
On Friday, September 21, 2012 03:11:20 PM Adrian Chadd wrote: > Hiya, > > those results look fine, what's the problem exactly? > > Beforehand it was 2MBit/sec upload, now it's 50MBit/sec > upload/download, that looks within expectations and close to what > ath9k is getting. > > > > Adrian > >

Re: Performance of AR9287

2012-09-21 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hiya, those results look fine, what's the problem exactly? Beforehand it was 2MBit/sec upload, now it's 50MBit/sec upload/download, that looks within expectations and close to what ath9k is getting. Adrian On 21 September 2012 04:01, Derrick Edwards wrote: > On Friday, September 21, 2012 12:

Re: Performance of AR9287

2012-09-21 Thread Derrick Edwards
On Friday, September 21, 2012 12:50:08 AM Adrian Chadd wrote: > Which iperf is upload and which is download? > > Can you run athstats during the transfer? > > Adrian > > On Sep 20, 2012 8:57 PM, "Derrick Edwards" wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am utilizing an mini PCIE AR9287 mini PCI-E. It

Re: Performance of AR9287

2012-09-20 Thread Adrian Chadd
Which iperf is upload and which is download? Can you run athstats during the transfer? Adrian On Sep 20, 2012 8:57 PM, "Derrick Edwards" wrote: > Hi, > I am utilizing an mini PCIE AR9287 mini PCI-E. It is not performing as > expected thus far. I utilized iperf to test speed from laptop