Tuesday, January 02, 2024

Re: Weird network performance with iwn(4)

On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 09:23:42AM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 07:54:47PM +0000, Lévai, Dániel wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >
>
> This means the performance issue is specific to 11ac mode, correct?

11ac mode supported by OpenBSD?

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