Experiencing very slow browsing at times (atheros wireless)

Sepherosa Ziehau sepherosa at gmail.com
Thu May 24 02:06:28 PDT 2007


On 5/24/07, Petr Janda <elekktretterr at exemail.com.au> wrote:
Sepherosa Ziehau wrote:
> Please turn off the two sysctls as Matt said during your next round
> testing.  Thanks.
>
> Best Regards,
> sephe
>
Turning them off didn't fix it.
I have switched to 802.11b:

ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.1.50 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
        inet6 fe80::20f:b5ff:fefa:9196%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
        ether 00:0f:b5:fa:91:96
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/5.5Mbps)
        status: associated
        ssid homenetwork channel 11 bssid 00:19:db:0a:39:e6
        authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 37 bmiss 7 protmode CTS burst
        bintval 100
Sometimes it goes to 11Mbps, but usually stays at 5.5. Guess what,
That's for TX, and is for packets whose size <= 250bytes.

browsing has been much better now. Even though slowness occured a couple
of times in the last 16 hours on 802.11b, it hasnt actually halted
completly once.
One thing that's is very strange is the NIC did recv mac frames sent
by 11g mode AP.  I would suspect they were discarded by upper layer
because of csum error.
Best Regards,
sephe
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