Subject: Re: introducing ath(4) and the FreeBSD 802.11 layer
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Bruce J.A. Nourish <bjan+current-users@bjan.net>
List: tech-net
Date: 10/13/2003 20:40:58
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 09:17:58PM -0500, David Young wrote:
> I am testing the 5GHz modes with my two D-Link DWL-AB520, and I am not
> getting very good results. I have to move the client's antenna to within
> two feet of the AP's antenna to make a spotty link.  Is anybody else
> having better luck than I?
> 
> The 11b mode seems to work fine.

Seems okay to me. My AP and several other clients are across the 
street, and I'm getting average ping times of 2.2ms. I can floodping
the AP for a few seconds with between 2% and 8% loss, ~400 packets 
per second, although this seems to vary with wind direction ;-)

Is there any other information you could use? Here's the {if,wi}config
output.

ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
	nwid mordor nwkey *****
	powersave off
	bssid 00:06:25:d9:cb:3e chan 9
	address: 00:0c:41:16:a7:95
	media: IEEE802.11 autoselect mode 11g (OFDM54 mode 11g)
	status: active
	input: 13033 packets, 3180787 bytes, 134 multicasts, 9397247 errors
	output: 14125 packets, 1344698 bytes, 5 multicasts
	inet 192.168.1.104 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
	inet6 fe80::20c:41ff:fe16:a795%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2

wiconfig: SIOCGWAVELAN: Invalid argument
NIC serial number:			[  ]
Station name:				[ telstar.bjan.net ]
SSID for IBSS creation:			[ mordor ]
Current netname (SSID):			[ mordor ]
Desired netname (SSID):			[ mordor ]
Current BSSID:				[ 00:06:25:d9:cb:3e ]
Channel list:				[ 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 ]
IBSS channel:				[ 9 ]
Current channel:			[ 9 ]
Comms quality/signal/noise:		[ 0 28 0 ]
Promiscuous mode:			[ Off ]
Port type:				[ 1 ]
MAC address:				[ 00:0c:41:16:a7:95 ]
TX rate (selection):			[ 0 ]
TX rate (actual speed):			[ 54 ]
Beacon Interval (current) [msec]:	[ 100 ]
Maximum data length:			[ 2312 ]
RTS/CTS handshake threshold:		[ 2312 ]


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