Intel 5100 Wifi... more questions.

[Kurt Buff]

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette
<rfg at tristatelogic.com> wrote:
<snip>
> % ifconfig wlan0
> wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         ether 00:22:fb:76:6d:18
>         inet 192.168.1.23 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
>         inet6 fe80::222:fbff:fe76:6d18%wlan0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xb
>         nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/18Mbps mode 11ng
>         status: associated
>         ssid ronair2-1 channel 11 (2462 MHz 11g ht/20) bssid c0:c1:c0:8b:4b:f3
>         country US authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF
>         AES-CCM 2:128-bit txpower 15 bmiss 10 scanvalid 450 bgscan
>         bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 64 protmode CTS
>         ampdulimit 64k ampdudensity 8 -amsdutx amsdurx shortgi wme
>         roaming MANUAL
>

Just a guess, as I really am not sure about this, but perhaps

1)        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/18Mbps mode 11ng
2)        status: associated
3)        ssid ronair2-1 channel 11 (2462 MHz 11g ht/20) bssid c0:c1:c0:8b:4b:f3

line 1 might indicate that it's talking 11ng - and that 802.11n is operative

and perhaps

line 3 only indicates frequency/channel.

Have you looked at your E1000 unit and verified what the link type is
for your connection? Perhaps it will tell you that it's connected via
'n' vs.'g'. Or not.

I'm sure someone more knowledgeable than me can comment further.

Kurt