From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: "P.G. Richardson" <p.g.richardson@phantomjinx.co.uk>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rtl8187 - nice work!
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:41:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49B813E9.8050108@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50533.82.152.175.172.1236798263.squirrel@www.phantomjinx.co.uk>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-11 19:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-11 19:04 rtl8187 - nice work! P.G. Richardson
2009-03-11 19:41 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2009-03-11 20:35 ` P.G. Richardson
2009-03-11 22:25 ` Larry Finger
2009-03-12 22:07 ` P.G. Richardson
2009-03-12 23:37 ` Larry Finger
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