Intel 1000-N is really slow

[Bernhard Schmidt]

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 11:02, Любомир Григоров <nm.knife at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My Intel 1000-N is really slow on Internet speed. I noticed this problem in
> Windows, too, but it's much worse in FreeBSD. I get capped at like 300kbs
> and I have 1.8mbs dl. Even speedtest cannot come to level. I heard it might
> be necessary to disable n mode? How can I do that?
>
> Here is ifconfig:
>
> iwn0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
> ether 74:e5:0b:df:a8:48
> nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
> status: associated
>
> wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> ether 74:e5:0b:df:a8:48
> inet 192.168.1.82 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
> nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet DS/1Mbps mode 11g
> status: associated
> ssid mreja channel 5 (2432 MHz 11g) bssid 28:16:2e:da:02:f9
> country US authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF
> TKIP 2:128-bit txpower 14 bmiss 10 scanvalid 450 bgscan
> bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 protmode CTS
> wme roaming MANUAL
>
> Please advise how to disable n mode or if there is another issue. This is a
> nuissanse.

No 11n active according to the output above, anyways ifconfig -ht does
disable HT (11n) support.

What's more worrying though is the "DS/1Mbps" part, obviously you
won't get any more data through this way. Can you please run wlandebug
+rate and provide the relevant messages after doing some traffic?

-- 
Bernhard