Andi Kleen wrote: > With Larry's patch reverted. Rate is still at 1Mbit/s of course. > This is all only with rtl8180, I didn't try everything on the realtek > card too. > > -Andi > > rate throughput ewma prob this prob this succ/attempt success attempts > TtP 1 0.9 99.2 100.0 1( 1) 23 32 > 2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0( 0) 0 0 > 5.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0( 0) 0 1 > 11 0.0 0.0 0.0 0( 0) 0 0 > 6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0( 0) 0 0 > 9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0( 0) 0 0 > 12 0.0 0.0 0.0 0( 0) 0 0 > 18 0.0 0.0 0.0 0( 0) 0 0 > 24 0.0 0.0 0.0 0( 0) 0 0 > 36 0.0 0.0 0.0 0( 0) 0 0 > 48 0.0 0.0 0.0 0( 0) 0 0 > 54 0.0 0.0 0.0 0( 0) 0 0 > > Total packet count:: ideal 25 lookaround 1 OK, that confirms that Larry's patch was wrong - at least the dump looks consistent now. Probably the RT2561 and the RTL8180 simply have a lower Tx power and thus can't get the signal through the walls as easily as the zd1211rw. If you still think that it's a rate control problem, please try all the rates individually and see if one of them works better. - Felix -- 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