Return-path: Received: from mtiwmhc11.worldnet.att.net ([204.127.131.115]:60929 "EHLO mtiwmhc11.worldnet.att.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752690AbYKFBnH (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Nov 2008 20:43:07 -0500 Message-ID: <49124B87.7050901@lwfinger.net> (sfid-20081106_024314_121096_25F9F281) Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:42:31 -0800 From: Larry Finger MIME-Version: 1.0 To: htl10@users.sourceforge.net CC: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, John W Linville , Johannes Berg , Michael Wu , Andrea Merello Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT PATCH v2 2/2] rtl8187: feedback transmitted packets using tx close descriptor for 8187B References: <968895.35316.qm@web23104.mail.ird.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <968895.35316.qm@web23104.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > > Seems that in my situation (my access point is a slow machine), the behavior of the rate control mechanism depends on the *type* of work load - I was restoring a firefox session with a lot of windows, and it is stuck at 1Mb all the time. But once all the windows are stored, doing a ping I can indeed have the rate going up (and eventually coming down) to 24-36Mb. Are those default pings? It may work differently with those short packets thaqn it does with the longer ones found with browsing. Larry