Return-path: Received: from nm30.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com ([98.139.212.189]:39488 "HELO nm30.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1754591Ab1DHJcy convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Apr 2011 05:32:54 -0400 Message-ID: <179432.26955.qm@web161615.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 02:32:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Walter Goldens Subject: Re: Questions about rt2800usb To: Steev Klimaszewski Cc: Jett Chen , Larry Finger , wireless In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > > Here's my vote against removing the rt2870sta from > staging. Some longstanding issues with latency and duplicate > packets (rt307x) are persistent with rt2800usb, whereas > rt2870sta works fine. > > > > my two cents > > > > Walter > > Personally, I've had the opposite (since the patch to > disable power > management on rt2800usb.)? rt2870sta hasn't been > noticeably more > stable, and in fact, I tend to see div0 bugs quite often > when using > it.? That said, I'm using Azurewave rt3070s. My vote went against only because of this: (rt3070 - 148f:3070) Ping gateway with staging: PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=4.34 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=2 ttl=64 time=4.70 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=3 ttl=64 time=1.61 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=4 ttl=64 time=1.68 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=5 ttl=64 time=1.33 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=6 ttl=64 time=6.57 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=7 ttl=64 time=4.45 ms ^C --- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics --- 7 packets transmitted, 7 received, 0% packet loss, time 6009ms Now pinging gateway with rt2800usb: PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=2 ttl=64 time=647 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=3 ttl=64 time=1590 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=4 ttl=64 time=583 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=5 ttl=64 time=29.2 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=6 ttl=64 time=1674 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=7 ttl=64 time=667 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=7 ttl=64 time=668 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=8 ttl=64 time=1645 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=9 ttl=64 time=637 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=10 ttl=64 time=1.38 ms ^C --- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics --- 10 packets transmitted, 9 received, +1 duplicates, 10% packet loss, time 9032ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.384/814.547/1674.284/588.666 ms, pipe 2 Steev, you mentioned there was a fix? Could you please point which patch resolves this? I'll be glad to drop the staging driver if rt2800usb does not lag anymore. Walter