On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 7:50 AM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > > -- > 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 > Can you see "PHY transmission error" messages in dmesg? If you get those, then that's a known bug. -- Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-) -- 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
