Your numbers for ath9k in the 5GHz band jibe with what I've observed for
the ar9170 in ad-hoc mode.
If you go down to 2.4GHz you'll see about 16MBit/s.
I have no other numbers to offer for comparison.
--Adam
Joerg Pommnitz wrote:
Hello all,
I have a strange performance problem with ath9k. I have two otherwise identical systems with an ath5k-supported card in system ATH5K and an ath9k supported card in system ATH9K.
Doing an UDP iperf run were ATH5K is the client/sender and ATH9K is the server/receiver I easily get data rates of 31MBit/s (tx data rate on the sender is manually set to 54 MBit/s).
Running the same test with ATH9K as client/sender and ATH5K as server/receiver gives maximum data rates of about 22MBit/s, about 30% less.
Doing the test against another ath9k system (e.g. ATH9K ==> ATH9K2) gives
the same max data rate of only 22 MBit/s, so the problem seems to be the
ath9k driver or the hardware. Can anybody confirm these problems? Is this
a known limitation? Any buttons to push to get things going faster?
Details:
the ath5k card is a AR2413 based design (Compex WLM54AG), the ath9k card
is a AR9220 (Compex WLM200NX 6A). The systems are connected in IBSS mode
on channel 40 (5200MHz).
The kernel version is wireless-testing as of January, 26. The kernel is
slightly patched to enable IBSS in 802.11a (we are allowed to do this).
Can anybody shed some light on this strange issue? Luis?
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