ath 802.11g throughput in 6.2-RELEASE

[Sepherosa Ziehau]

On 5/17/07, Kernel Jake <kerneljake at hotmail.com> wrote:
> % ifconfig ath0
> ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet 192.168.1.55 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
>         inet 192.168.1.54 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 192.168.1.54
>         ether 00:11:95:92:72:55
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g (DS/11Mbps)

You mentioned you were using Sample, then the TX rate shown by
ifconfig is for packets whose size are <= 250 bytes.  Please use
netperf or iperf to do some real measure instead of reading the output
of ifconfig.  BTW, higher TX rate does not necessarily mean you will
have better TX performance.

Best Regards,
sephe

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