Throughput is very low

[Mamun Abu-Tair]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Mamun Abu-Tair <ma86 at st-andrews.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: Throughput is very low
> Date: 17 July 2014 12:22:46 BST
> To: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior at tieto.com>
> 
> Many thanks Michale, 
> 
> On 17 Jul 2014, at 06:21, Michal Kazior <michal.kazior at tieto.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 16 July 2014 18:01, Bart Jooris <Bart.Jooris at intec.ugent.be> wrote:
>>> On 07/09/2014 04:22 PM, Mamun Abu-Tair wrote:
>> [...]
>>>> I have notice that Bit Rate keeps fixed 6 Mb/s . and it dose not
>>>> responding to any commands to change it.
>>> 
>>> While running iperf client on the station I can also retrieve the Tx bitrate
>>> of 6Mbps with both iwconfig and 'iw wlanX station dump'. Version of iw has
>>> some impact on the output too, I have version 3.15.  I don't know a tool
>>> which shows the right info on the transmitting node...
>>> But a third node which is configured as a sniffer shows Tx bitrate of
>>> 1299.99Mbps :-)
>> 
>> The 6mbps tx rate reporting is due to firmware limitation.
>> 
>> You might want to check
>> /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phyX/ath10k/fw_stats (replace phyX with
>> according phy of your ath10k device) instead.
> 
> I have checked the file and it has nothing on it. Is this normal ?!!!
> Kind regards 
> Mamun
> 
>> 
>> 
>> Michał