Re: iwlwifi: AX203 Wifi Unstable

Hi Bjoern,

Thank you for your reply; I have sent you my dmesg.boot while booting 
verbosely via email.

On 8/24/25 10:38, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Aug 2025, Nick Date wrote:
>
>> Before I do that, I will explain the symptoms; on boot, FreeBSD 
>> connects to my wireless network very quickly, and I get speeds 
>> between 4Mbps and 14Mbps (this speed seems random). Sometimes the 
>> connection is very stable, and I can work for hours without issue. 
>> Other times, it seems when the connection is established at a lower 
>> speed, I work fine for a while but the connection seems to grind to a 
>> halt intermittently. For example, I might be running a "pkg upgrade" 
>> when all of the sudden the ETA goes up from seconds, to minutes 
>> before pkg displays "stalled". When this happens I still appear to be 
>> connected, but I cannot ping anything either by hostname or IP. 
>> Usually after a few minutes, the connection returns. However, 
>> sometimes it does not return at all, and I have to reboot.
>>
>> I dual boot in Windows 11, and in that OS I have a very fast 
>> connection speed which I have never had any problem with, so the 
>> issue points to FreeBSD. I have tried reconfiguring my router to only 
>> use 5MHz but there is no change, nor does the issue change if I 
>> create a hotspot on my phone and connect to that instead.
>
> You are currently stuck on 11g which seems stange.  I'd expect at least
> 11ng.   You do not by any chance have anything set in rc.conf for wifi
> creation that would liimt you to 11g? 

I don't think so but, weirdly, when I connect with a USB wifi dongle 
using the run0 driver, it also gives me 11g-type speeds.

These are the lines in my rc.conf related to networking:

hostname="[sanitised]"
wlans_iwlwifi0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA  inet [sanitised] netmask 0xffffff00"
create_args_wlan0="country RO regdomain ETSI"
defaultrouter="[sanitised]"

Please let me know if I'm doing anything stupid! :)

Kind regards,
Nick