Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Re: Weird network performance with iwn(4)

Danel Levai wrote:
> Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > I checked for openwrt support but your AP has a relatively uncommon
> > Realtek SoC and it seems fairly unlikely to happen so you're probably
> > stuck with the vendor firmware.
> >
> > Maybe try forcing "mode 11n" or "mode 11g" with ifconfig and see if
> > that's any better.
>
> Interestingly enough, "mode 11g" won't join the AP. 11n works and it's a steady
> 300KByte/sec, it doesn't go up and down like with 11ac.
>
> Anyway, I'll see if I can find myself another AP to deploy here, maybe it's just some
> fringe compatibility issue.
>
> Daniel

Just for the record, I totally missed trying the 2.4GHz SSID of this AP (it has a different name). I was only trying 5GHz with all modes - no wonder .11g wouldn't join (brain freeze)...
So .11n actually works on 2.4GHz with this AP and iwm(4), and has a download speed of around 1,5-2,0MByte.

Daniel

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