Re: Poor performance on 11ac

On Fri, 18 Jul 2025, Ben Hutton wrote:

> Curiously I rebooted and it went back to normal speed.

Welome to the wonderful world of black boxes ;-)

Did you also change your country to AU at any time (ideally in
rc.conf [or wpa_supplicant.conf])?


> Kind regards
> Ben
>
> On 7/18/25 00:35, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
>> 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