Re: Poor performance on 11ac

From: Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 16:35:56 UTC 
On Thu, 17 Jul 2025, Ben Hutton wrote:

> The Access point is in AU mode.

Then set country AU on FreeBSD too.

> compat.linuxkpi.80211.wlan0.dump_stas:
> lsta 0xfffff8004d54e800 sta 0xfffff8004d54e9c0 added_to_drv 1
> nl80211_sta_info (valid fields) 
> 0x00004503<BEACON_RX,BEACON_SIGNAL_AVG,SIGNAL_AVG,RX_BITRATE,TX_BITRATE>
> connected_time 0 inactive_time 0
> rx_bytes 0 rx_packets 0 rx_dropped_misc 0
> rx_duration 0 rx_beacon 17392 rx_beacon_signal_avg -62
> tx_bytes 0 tx_packets 0 tx_failed 0
> tx_duration 0 tx_retries 0
> signal 0 signal_avg -60 ack_signal 0 avg_ack_signal 0
> generation 0 assoc_req_ies_len 0 chains 0
> rxrate: flags 2<VHT_MCS> bw 4(80) legacy 0 kbit/s mcs 6 nss 2
>         he_dcm 0 he_gi 0 he_ru_alloc 0 eht_gi 0
> txrate: flags 6<VHT_MCS,SGI> bw 4(80) legacy 0 kbit/s mcs 9 nss 2
>         he_dcm 0 he_gi 0 he_ru_alloc 0 eht_gi 0

This doesn't look too bad.  VHT80 MCS 9 NSS 2 for tx doesn't get any
better.


> I'm running main.

Hmm, the only thing I had done there was fix installer, fix regdomain
for ETSI, and the ACPI changes beginning of the month (Jul 4).

Would be interesting to know if others are seeing similar problems?

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Bjoern A. Zeeb                                                     r15:7