I finally started to use the b43 driver on my home-router and am happy
to have it working at all (with WPA), but I notice that the speed is
pretty terrible: I cannot seem to get more than 100KB/s out of it (I
use it as a personal web proxy, so it ends up slowing down my
web-surfing :-( ).
Originally "iwconfig" told me that the bit rate was 2Mb/s (and even
that should allow me to get a bit more than 100KB/s).
After "iwconfig wlan0 rate 54M", the result is the same (except that
"iwconfig" tells me the bit rate is 54Mb/s).
More specifically, iwconfig tells me things like:
wlan0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"test"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.457 GHz Access Point: 00:10:30:C0:50:50
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Link Quality=95/100 Signal level:-54 dBm Noise level=-63 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
which seems to indicate that the reception is indeed good.
Any idea what I might want to check?
I did notice that my dmesg says things like
"received packet with own address as source address". This seems
related to my use of bridging, but:
1 - I have no bridging loop (actually I unplugged all ethernet cables,
so the only active network interface in the bridge is wlan0).
2 - taking wlan0 out of the bridge eliminates those messages, but
doesn't improve the bandwidth.
Any idea what might be going on?
Stefan
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