P.G. Richardson wrote: > Hi, > > Installed the compat-wireless-2009-03-10 and the speed has greatly > improved. Thanks very much. > > I do have some observations that might be a bug or just configuration. > > When powering up, the wireless decided on 54M as its bit rate. > Consequently, tcp was patchy at best - losing packets whilst pinging, ssh > failing to connect. Setting the rate back to a fixed 11M solves this and > gives good speed. Interestingly, performance declines as I up the bit rate > from 11 to 18 etc... It is probably a bug. My Netgear WG111V2 with an RTL8187L chip is perfectly happy running at 48 or 54 Mb/s with a transmit throughput of 21-23 Mb/s - close to the maximum for an 802.11g network. There are, however, other reports like yours where the OFDM rates (6, 9, 18, 24, 36, 48, and 54 Mb/s) don't work very well. It seems that not all 8187's are the same. What rate-setting algorithm are you using? Use 'dmesg | grep rate' to see that. I would have expected it to have settled into 11 Mb/s. Perhaps the auto retry hasn't really been turned off. Larry -- 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
