Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 06:01:03 +0000 (GMT)
From: Hin-Tak Leung <hintak_leung@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: throughput problem Re: [RFC/RFT PATCH v2 2/2] rtl8187: feedback transmitted packets using tx close descriptor for 8187B
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
	John W Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>,
	Andrea Merello <andrea.merello@gmail.com>
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Without any additional modification, just compat-wireless and wireles-testing v2.6.28-rc3-4651-gb53846d has a preculiar problem - the rate is
stuck at 54Mb (known issue to be addressed by Herton's feedback patch) as shown by iwconfig, but sftp doesn't transfer file much higher than 30-40kB/s.
blowing away /lib/module/`uname -r`/updates (i.e. reverting to the as shipped 2.6.27.5 rtl8187 & mac80211 ) gives easily over 10 times that
speed. anybody seen this problem (with rtl8187 or other mac80211 driver 
with wireless testing)?