Return-path: Received: from mail-ew0-f219.google.com ([209.85.219.219]:47407 "EHLO mail-ew0-f219.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755562Ab0A1QMu convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:12:50 -0500 Received: by ewy19 with SMTP id 19so914345ewy.21 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:12:48 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <774870.89795.qm@web51401.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <774870.89795.qm@web51401.mail.re2.yahoo.com> From: rootkit85@yahoo.it Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:12:28 +0100 Message-ID: <40101cc31001280812v19e78ad7m3cf04a7ff1851ce0@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] Significiant performance differences between ath5k and ath9k in 802.11a To: Joerg Pommnitz Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org, ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Joerg Pommnitz wrote: > Hello all, > I have a strange performance problem with ath9k. I have two otherwise identical systems with an ath5k-supported card in system ATH5K and an ath9k supported card in system ATH9K. > Doing an UDP iperf run were ATH5K is the client/sender and ATH9K is the server/receiver I easily get data rates of 31MBit/s (tx data rate on the sender is manually set to 54 MBit/s). > Running the same test with ATH9K as client/sender and ATH5K as server/receiver gives maximum data rates of about 22MBit/s, about 30% less. > > Doing the test against another ath9k system (e.g. ATH9K ==> ATH9K2) gives > the same max data rate of only 22 MBit/s, so the problem seems to be the > ath9k driver or the hardware. Can anybody confirm these problems? Is this > a known limitation? Any buttons to push to get things going faster? > > Details: > the ath5k card is a AR2413 based design (Compex WLM54AG), the ath9k card > is a AR9220 (Compex WLM200NX 6A). The systems are connected in IBSS mode > on channel 40 (5200MHz). > The kernel version is wireless-testing as of January, 26. The kernel is > slightly patched to enable IBSS in 802.11a (we are allowed to do this). > > Can anybody shed some light on this strange issue? Luis? > > -- > Regards >       Joerg > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Sie sind Spam leid? Yahoo! Mail verfügt über einen herausragenden Schutz gegen Massenmails. > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > ath9k-devel mailing list > ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org > https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel > Can you try in AP-client mode? I think you'll get more throughput so.