Running hostapd with Atheros 11n
Jonas Liepuonius
thinker.lp at gmail.com
Tue Dec 31 14:14:24 UTC 2013
You are definetaly in 11n mode, because it reports 11ng and this part
"11g ht/20" means that it is listening on 11n channel. But I can't help
you about the speed, which is indeed weird. I think Adrian is better
suited to answer that question.
On 2013.12.31 12:32, Gustau Pérez wrote:
> On 30/12/2013 22:27, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Please try 6:ht/20. It may be having issues with interference..
>>
> Hi,
>
> tried with 6:ht/20 but performance is horrible. The machine running
> hostapd reports this http://pastebin.com/aQD8Y2WD (still says 11g,
> wouldn't it report 11n?). In the client I see this:
> http://pastebin.com/hiDtZbRV
>
> Running iperf between them reports about 6Mbit/s (which is quite low).
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> Greets,
>
> Gustau
>
>
>> -a
>>
>>
>> On 30 December 2013 12:38, Gustau Pérez <gperez at entel.upc.edu> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've tried to run hostapd with an Atheros 5416 with 11n support (added
>>> ATH_ENABLE_11N to my kernel config). I configured the AP with 6:ht/40 (I
>>> guess the band width doesn't matter).
>>>
>>> All the 11n enabled clients (two nexus4 and an ipad3) I have but my
>>> laptop are able to associate with the hostapd in 11n mode. The laptop
>>> has an Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205.
>>>
>>> The AP runs HEAD/r257872 (Nov 8) and the client runs HEAD/r258760 (Nov
>>> 30), but updating the AP did not solve anything.
>>>
>>> Will updating to current head in the client solve the issue? The only
>>> solution I've been able to use so far is forcing g mode in the AP. Doing
>>> that allows the 6205 client to associate with the AP.
>>>
>>> Greets,
>>>
>>> Gustau
>>>
>>> --
>>> Salut i força,
>>>
>>> Gustau
>>>
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