Return-path: Received: from mail-gy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.160.174]:62371 "EHLO mail-gy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756019Ab0DCVkF (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Apr 2010 17:40:05 -0400 Received: by gyg13 with SMTP id 13so1494982gyg.19 for ; Sat, 03 Apr 2010 14:40:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4BB7B5B2.3080102@lwfinger.net> Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2010 16:40:02 -0500 From: Larry Finger MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gus Wirth CC: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RTL 8187b - naughty behaviour References: <4BB7660A.3030900@lwfinger.net> <4BB79F15.2040307@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4BB79F15.2040307@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 04/03/2010 03:03 PM, Gus Wirth wrote: > > How is it that you get a reported Bit Rate of 11Mbps from iwconfig but > your actual measured bitrate is about 13Mbps? Is there something wrong > with the way iwconfig reports what's going on? Or is there some > compression going on that is not accounted for? The 11 Mb/s Bit Rate was at a distance of 15 m where the transmit rate was 3 Mb/s. The transmit rate of 13 Mb/s was at 2 m, where the Bit Rate was 24 Mb/s or higher. No magic. You will never see a throughput rate higher than ~0.5 the bit rate reported by iwconfig. Larry