MA401 high collision and not so great performance.
"Lazy Bastard" <[email protected]>
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Hello
I'm using two MA401 (prism 2.5) and one MA301 to
connect PC(FreeBSD) and Notebook(WinXP).
When it's 1.5M apart each other in the same room,
maximum speed I can get is 150KB up, 300KB down,
and when notebook is out of my room(about 6 meter), 90KB up and 200KB down(both are from client-notebook-'s perspective).
I swapped PCCARDs each other, tried every channel, tried ad-hoc instead of hostap, wep on/off... and everything I can think of but got almost identical result. except channel thing.. I got better result from lower channel.
Is it normal?
Here's dmesg and such..
wi0: <Netgear MA301> port 0x9400-0x943f,0x9800-0x987f mem 0xc7800000-0xc7800fff irq 3 at device 13.0 on pci0
wi0: 802.11 address: 00:09:5b:24:e1:e6
wi0: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3873
wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary 1.00.07, Station 1.03.06
$ ifconfig wi0
wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::209:5bff:fe24:e1e6%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
ether 00:09:5b:24:e1:e6
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect <hostap> (DS/2Mbps <hostap>)
status: associated
ssid Hypercube_wireless 1:Hypercube_wireless
stationname "FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node"
channel 2 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
wepmode OFF weptxkey 1
wepkey 1:128-bit wepkey 2:128-bit wepkey 3:128-bit wepkey 4:128-bit
netstat -i -I wi0
Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll
wi0 1500 <Link#3> 00:09:5b:24:e1:e6 57006 0 52367 0 23989
wi0 1500 fe80:3::209:5 fe80:3::209:5bff: 0 - 0 - -
wi0 1500 192.168.0 192.168.0.1 212 - 171 - -
$ netstat -w 1 -I wi0
input (wi0) output
packets errs bytes packets errs bytes colls
9 0 831 10 0 1092 0
13 0 752 18 0 5769 0
56 0 3216 97 0 148372 41
80 0 4640 144 0 215382 86
45 0 2598 80 0 121120 38
92 0 5404 151 0 227130 84
28 0 2138 38 0 51756 0
61 0 3546 98 0 148372 55
88 0 5056 156 0 236184 77
45 0 2594 72 0 109008 20
16 0 872 24 0 36336 23
61 0 3526 105 0 158970 34
162 0 182913 120 0 66886 79
178 0 244828 104 0 6276 63
72 0 86148 33 0 2002 17
154 0 216292 93 0 6886 49
167 0 241558 98 0 6012 54
188 0 271408 100 0 6164 63
144 0 197052 77 0 4935 38
187 0 255894 101 0 6546 46
input (wi0) output
packets errs bytes packets errs bytes colls
176 0 232800 103 0 6339 66
178 0 237612 105 0 6384 58
160 0 210297 91 0 5568 51
4 0 216 8 0 1082 0
5 0 270 10 0 1113 0
6 0 300 11 0 1185 0
5 0 270 10 0 1167 0
36 0 3346 37 0 3701 0
50 0 5100 49 0 4998 0
49 0 4998 49 0 4998 0
49 0 4998 50 0 5100 0
27 0 3044 27 0 2626 0
12 0 2279 10 0 4801 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 23
1 0 30 1 0 30 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
$ wicontrol -C
[1/1]: 00:09:5b:24:e2:1e, 8.0.69.0, sig: -107, noise: -145, qual: 38
$ wicontrol wi0
NIC serial number: [ 99SA01000000 ]
Station name: [ FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node ]
SSID for IBSS creation: [ Hypercube_wireless ]
Current netname (SSID): [ Hypercube_wireless ]
Desired netname (SSID): [ Hypercube_wireless ]
Current BSSID: [ 00:09:5b:24:e1:e6 ]
Channel list: [ 1fff ]
IBSS channel: [ 2 ]
Current channel: [ 2 ]
Comms quality/signal/noise: [ 0 81 27 ]
dBm Coms Quality: [ 0 -73 -73 ]
Promiscuous mode: [ Off ]
Process 802.11b Frame: [ Off ]
Intersil-Prism2 based card: [ 1 ]
Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc): [ 6 ]
MAC address: [ 00:09:5b:24:e1:e6 ]
TX rate (selection): [ 3 ]
TX rate (actual speed): [ 2 ]
RTS/CTS handshake threshold: [ 2347 ]
Create IBSS: [ Off ]
Access point density: [ 1 ]
Power Mgmt (1=on, 0=off): [ 0 ]
Max sleep time: [ 100 ]
PRI Identity: [ 21 7 1 0 ]
STA Identity: [ 31 6 1 3 ]
Card ID register: [ 800c 0 1 0 ]
Regulatory Domains: [ usa, canada, 0x0 ]
Temperature Range: [ 1 ]
WEP encryption: [ Off ]
TX encryption key: [ 1 ]
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