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Re: rt2800usb (rt2x00) in ad-hoc mode stalls when transferring large amount of data

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Hi

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 20:04, Juan Carlos Garza
<juancarlosgarza@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have a Ralink 3071 usb device (Bus 002 Device 003: ID 07b8:3071
> D-Link Corp. 802.11n/b/g Mini Wireless LAN USB2.0 Adapter).
> I am using the mac80211 driver by compiling the compat-wireless
> tarball from yesterday (10 March). I cross compile it with the 2.6.24
> kernel in a Montavista distribution (and also with 2.6.27 in Fedora)
>
> It works pretty good in AP mode using HostAPD and DCHP and I get
> relative good transfer rates (up to 3.5 MBytes per second).
>
> My problems are with Ad-Hoc connections. I can configure the Ad-Hoc
> connection, for example:
>
> iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc
> iwconfig wlan0 essid my_ad_hoc_nt
> iwconfig wlan0 key 1122334455
> ifconfig wlan0 192.168.111.44 up
>
> It works and I connect to it on the other end (a windows machine with
> a compatible static ip address), however, it only works for doing
> small data transfer rate things like browsing through the directories
> of a shared folder or retrieving web pages from a web server. When I
> try to do something like transferring a 500 MByte file, it starts
> transferring, reaches a peak and then it drops to 0 again. After that,
> the file is no longer transferred and I cannot do anything else (can't
> ping).
>
> Is this a known issue? Any ideas?
>
> Juan Carlos
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keep in mind that current (and by design) ad-hoc connections max out at 11Mb.

there may be some buffer bottleneck involved.

but I'm not a very good expert on this subject.


Luis Correia
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