Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f46.google.com ([209.85.161.46]:55533 "EHLO mail-fx0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751811Ab1CFJxD convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Mar 2011 04:53:03 -0500 Received: by fxm17 with SMTP id 17so3315948fxm.19 for ; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 01:53:02 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <4D5AAC7C.6060509@lwfinger.net> <4D5AC011.5050007@lwfinger.net> From: Ben Ruijl Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 10:52:42 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: r8712u: packet loss To: Larry Finger Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Larry, The iwconfig I sent you is wrong, because I switched routers. The router I had was a wireless N router, with which I had 12 percent packet loss. The iwconfig you are seeing is with a wireless G connection and now I only have 1 percent packet loss: the same as you have. It appears that the relative packet loss is greater with an N connection. Ben 2011/2/18 Ben Ruijl : > Here is the output of iwconfig: > > wlan0 ? ? IEEE 802.11bg ?ESSID:"H23" ?Nickname:"rtl_wifi" > ? ? ? ? ?Mode:Managed ?Frequency:2.452 GHz ?Access Point: 00:23:54:A6:EF:A4 > ? ? ? ? ?Bit Rate:54 Mb/s ? Sensitivity:0/0 > ? ? ? ? ?Retry:off ? RTS thr:off ? Fragment thr:off > ? ? ? ? ?Power Management:off > ? ? ? ? ?Link Quality=100/100 ?Signal level=69/100 ?Noise level=0/100 > ? ? ? ? ?Rx invalid nwid:0 ?Rx invalid crypt:0 ?Rx invalid frag:0 > ? ? ? ? ?Tx excessive retries:0 ?Invalid misc:0 ? Missed beacon:0 > > The link quality varies between 99 and 100, but is almost always 100. > The signal level varies between 62 and 69. > > Ben > -- Ben Ruijl PGP?825472FC