Re: Poor performance on 11ac

From: Ben Hutton <ben_at_benhutton.com.au>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2025 23:38:20 UTC
No I haven't changed the country code. As far as I am aware it should be 
correct.

create_args_wlan0="country AU regdomain AU"
ifconfig_wlan0="mode 11ac WPA SYNCDHCP powersave"

It is however still showing US on the interface.


Kind regards
Ben

On 7/18/25 19:14, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> 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?
>>>
>>
>>
>