Atheros AR9280 5GHz working but still slow? (FreeBSD 11.3)

[Adrian Chadd]

Hm, 16 and 12 RSSI isn't that high, and it's selecting low bitrates.

3165 only does 11abg right now iirc, the iwm driver doesn't do 11n or 11ac.


-a


On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 at 16:25, Georg Bege <georg at bege.email> wrote:

> Hi Adrian,
>
> the output is as follows
> -------------------------------snip--------------------------------
> ADDR               AID CHAN RATE RSSI IDLE  TXSEQ  RXSEQ CAPS FLAG
> e0:94:67:e5:ab:1e    1   40  54M 16.5    0  54934  29184 EP   AQ
> RSN WME
> ac:92:32:2c:1b:9b    2   40   7M 12.5    0    946  23648 EP   AQPHTRS
> WME HTCAP RSN
> -------------------------------snip--------------------------------
>
> I've measured this aprox. 2MB/s with my laptop, which is also using
> FreeBSD 12.
> Its having an Intel wireless 3165 card.
>
> regards,
> Georg
>
> Am 04.09.19 um 00:58 schrieb Adrian Chadd:
> > hi!
> >
> > No, you should be getting more than 2 megabits/sec.
> >
> > Whats the output of "ifconfig wlan0 list sta" ?
> >
> >
> > -adrian
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 28 Aug 2019 at 16:41, Georg Bege <georg at bege.email> wrote:
> >
> >     Hello community,
> >
> >     Im using a Wifi AP with an Atheros card now for quite some time,
> >     since a
> >     couple of FreeBSD revisions. I guess started back on FreeBSD 10(?).
> >
> >     My wifi AP seem to limit me to 2MB/s basically, which is pretty slow.
> >     Im not sure if all my options are ok, or if there are some ways I can
> >     tweak around it...
> >     Is this a limitation of the current driver?
> >     Would be very interesting to hear from someone who runs a similar
> setup
> >     and has more speed/throughput than I do.
> >     I only have this box with this card, cant really tinker a lot around
> >     with other cards - and as I know Atheros is one of the drivers which
> is
> >     better supported than others.
> >     Back then it was quite hard to get 5GHz running correctly....
> >
> >     Some of my debug output, config files etc.:
> >
>  -------------------------------dmesg-ath-------------------------------
> >     ath0: <Atheros 9280> mem 0xfe800000-0xfe80ffff at device 0.0 on pci4
> >     [ath] enabling AN_TOP2_FIXUP
> >     ath0: [HT] enabling HT modes
> >     ath0: [HT] 1 stream STBC receive enabled
> >     ath0: [HT] 1 stream STBC transmit enabled
> >     ath0: [HT] 2 RX streams; 2 TX streams
> >     ath0: AR9280 mac 128.2 RF5133 phy 13.0
> >     ath0: 2GHz radio: 0x0000; 5GHz radio: 0x00c0
> >
>  -------------------------------dmesg-ath-------------------------------
> >
> >
>  -------------------------ifconfig-wlan0--------------------------------
> >     wlan0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
> >     metric
> >     0 mtu 1500
> >              ether XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
> >              hwaddr XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
> >              nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
> >              media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11na
> >     <hostap>
> >              status: running
> >              ssid XXXXXXXXXXX channel 40 (5200 MHz 11a ht/20) bssid
> >     XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
> >              regdomain ETSI country DE ecm authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy
> >     MIXED
> >              deftxkey 2 AES-CCM 2:128-bit AES-CCM 3:128-bit txpower 17
> >     mcastrate 6
> >              mgmtrate 6 scanvalid 60 ampdulimit 64k ampdudensity 8
> >     shortgi wme
> >              burst dtimperiod 1 -dfs
> >              groups: wlan
> >
>  -------------------------ifconfig-wlan0--------------------------------
> >     As you can see Im using "country DE" - but this cant be the reason
> for
> >     such slow speed?
> >
> >
>  -------------------------rc.conf--------------------------------------
> >     create_args_wlan0="wlanmode hostap channel 40:ht/20 country de"
> >
>  -------------------------rc.conf--------------------------------------
> >
> >
>  ------------------------hostapd.conf----------------------------------
> >     interface=wlan0
> >     ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd
> >     ctrl_interface_group=0
> >     ssid=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXx
> >     wmm_enabled=1
> >     ieee80211d=1
> >     country_code=DE
> >     wpa=2
> >     wpa_passphrase=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
> >     wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
> >     wpa_pairwise=CCMP
> >     rsn_pairwise=CCMP
> >
>  ------------------------hostapd.conf----------------------------------
> >
> >     best regards,
> >     --
> >     Georg Bege
> >     Mail: georg at bege.email
> >     IRC: megaTherion @ Freenode
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