Hi all, I recently built a home theatre PC with a Mini-ITX motherboard with an Intel Wireless-N 2230 on board. I'm running up-to-date Debian Testing (Wheezy) on it with the default 3.11 kernel. I'm having issues streaming "low" bitrate video (well below 1Mbit/sec) over our otherwise quiet wireless network. iw dev wlan0 link reports a signal level of ~-60dBm, my access point claims a slightly lower signal level. My wireless network is run off a cheap ath9k router with 3 antennae. I believe that this particular part is at fault as my laptop, which has an Ultimate-N 5300 with 2 antennae, can stream the same files without issue when placed next to the HTPC; and the network has sufficient bandwidth to stream similar files to four devices simultaneously. I'm well aware that I should update to the latest wireless-testing (or install an equivalent backport release) before filing official bug reports, however I want to know if there have been any improvements since 3.11 which would benefit the 'N 2230. Also, are there any new firmware versions which may improve this situation? - I'm using version 18.168.6.1 as distributed by Debian. Relevant dmesg snippet: [ 1.320728] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) [ 1.320850] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: irq 44 for MSI/MSI-X [ 1.324627] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: firmware: agent loaded iwlwifi-2030-6.ucode into memory [ 1.324925] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: loaded firmware version 18.168.6.1 op_mode iwldvm [ 1.338637] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG disabled [ 1.338641] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUGFS disabled [ 1.338643] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEVICE_TRACING disabled [ 1.338645] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_P2P enabled [ 1.338647] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Centrino(R) Wireless-N 2230 BGN, REV=0xC8 [ 1.338702] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: L1 Disabled; Enabling L0S [ 1.361414] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-agn-rs' [ 3.384827] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: L1 Disabled; Enabling L0S [ 3.392503] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Radio type=0x2-0x0-0x0 [ 3.632396] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: L1 Disabled; Enabling L0S [ 3.640063] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Radio type=0x2-0x0-0x0 Thanks, -- Julian Calaby Email: julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/julian.calaby/ .Plan: http://sites.google.com/site/juliancalaby/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
