Atheros AR9280 5GHz working but still slow? (FreeBSD 11.3)

[georg at bege.email]

Hello,

I see - ok so its not possible with the iwm driver yet.
Care to elaborate the details, whats missing etc.?

regards,

Am 2019-09-04 02:34, schrieb Adrian Chadd:
> Hm, 16 and 12 RSSI isn't that high, and it's selecting low bitrates.
> 
> 3165 only does 11abg right now iirc, the iwm driver doesn't do 11n or
> 11ac.
> 
> -a
> 
> On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 at 16:25, Georg Bege <georg at bege.email> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Adrian,
>> 
>> the output is as follows
>> -------------------------------snip--------------------------------
>> ADDR               AID CHAN RATE RSSI IDLE  TXSEQ  RXSEQ CAPS FLAG
>> e0:94:67:e5:ab:1e    1   40  54M 16.5    0  54934  29184 EP   AQ
>> RSN WME
>> ac:92:32:2c:1b:9b    2   40   7M 12.5    0    946  23648 EP
>> AQPHTRS
>> WME HTCAP RSN
>> -------------------------------snip--------------------------------
>> 
>> I've measured this aprox. 2MB/s with my laptop, which is also using
>> FreeBSD 12.
>> Its having an Intel wireless 3165 card.
>> 
>> regards,
>> Georg
>> 
>> Am 04.09.19 um 00:58 schrieb Adrian Chadd:
>>> hi!
>>> 
>>> No, you should be getting more than 2 megabits/sec.
>>> 
>>> Whats the output of "ifconfig wlan0 list sta" ?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -adrian
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Wed, 28 Aug 2019 at 16:41, Georg Bege <georg at bege.email> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello community,
>>> 
>>> Im using a Wifi AP with an Atheros card now for quite some
>> time,
>>> since a
>>> couple of FreeBSD revisions. I guess started back on FreeBSD
>> 10(?).
>>> 
>>> My wifi AP seem to limit me to 2MB/s basically, which is
>> pretty slow.
>>> Im not sure if all my options are ok, or if there are some
>> ways I can
>>> tweak around it...
>>> Is this a limitation of the current driver?
>>> Would be very interesting to hear from someone who runs a
>> similar setup
>>> and has more speed/throughput than I do.
>>> I only have this box with this card, cant really tinker a lot
>> around
>>> with other cards - and as I know Atheros is one of the drivers
>> which is
>>> better supported than others.
>>> Back then it was quite hard to get 5GHz running correctly....
>>> 
>>> Some of my debug output, config files etc.:
>>> 
>> 
> -------------------------------dmesg-ath-------------------------------
>>> ath0: <Atheros 9280> mem 0xfe800000-0xfe80ffff at device 0.0
>> on pci4
>>> [ath] enabling AN_TOP2_FIXUP
>>> ath0: [HT] enabling HT modes
>>> ath0: [HT] 1 stream STBC receive enabled
>>> ath0: [HT] 1 stream STBC transmit enabled
>>> ath0: [HT] 2 RX streams; 2 TX streams
>>> ath0: AR9280 mac 128.2 RF5133 phy 13.0
>>> ath0: 2GHz radio: 0x0000; 5GHz radio: 0x00c0
>>> 
>> 
> -------------------------------dmesg-ath-------------------------------
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> -------------------------ifconfig-wlan0--------------------------------
>>> wlan0:
>> flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
>>> metric
>>> 0 mtu 1500
>>> ether XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
>>> hwaddr XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
>>> nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>>> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode
>> 11na
>>> <hostap>
>>> status: running
>>> ssid XXXXXXXXXXX channel 40 (5200 MHz 11a ht/20)
>> bssid
>>> XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
>>> regdomain ETSI country DE ecm authmode WPA2/802.11i
>> privacy
>>> MIXED
>>> deftxkey 2 AES-CCM 2:128-bit AES-CCM 3:128-bit
>> txpower 17
>>> mcastrate 6
>>> mgmtrate 6 scanvalid 60 ampdulimit 64k ampdudensity 8
>>> shortgi wme
>>> burst dtimperiod 1 -dfs
>>> groups: wlan
>>> 
>> 
> -------------------------ifconfig-wlan0--------------------------------
>>> As you can see Im using "country DE" - but this cant be the
>> reason for
>>> such slow speed?
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> -------------------------rc.conf--------------------------------------
>>> create_args_wlan0="wlanmode hostap channel 40:ht/20 country
>> de"
>>> 
>> 
> -------------------------rc.conf--------------------------------------
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> ------------------------hostapd.conf----------------------------------
>>> interface=wlan0
>>> ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd
>>> ctrl_interface_group=0
>>> ssid=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXx
>>> wmm_enabled=1
>>> ieee80211d=1
>>> country_code=DE
>>> wpa=2
>>> wpa_passphrase=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
>>> wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
>>> wpa_pairwise=CCMP
>>> rsn_pairwise=CCMP
>>> 
>> 
> ------------------------hostapd.conf----------------------------------
>>> 
>>> best regards,
>>> --
>>> Georg Bege
>>> Mail: georg at bege.email
>>> IRC: megaTherion @ Freenode
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>> 
>> --
>> Georg Bege
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