Performance degradation over time

[Michal Kazior]

Sorry for the late reply.

Normally one should expect OTP to fail and thus, ath10k to fail to
load. Moreover, if you bought the card standalone it probably has
calibration data.. or at least I think it should. Devices found in
routers can have calibration data stored on generic flash partition
instead of dedicated wifi eeprom.

One think you could see with uncalibrated device is a random mac on
the wlan interface (e.g. 00:03:7f:xx:xx:xx) or some suspicious looking
one (e.g. 00:03:7f:11:22:33).


Michał



On 9 March 2016 at 13:46, Matthew Keeler <mjkeeler7 at gmail.com> wrote:
>  How can I tell if calibration is done in EEPROM or out-of-band?
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> Matt Keeler
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> On March 9, 2016 at 01:00:45, Michal Kazior (michal.kazior at tieto.com(mailto:michal.kazior at tieto.com)) wrote:
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>> On 9 March 2016 at 03:01, Matthew Keeler wrote:
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>> > So with the most recent firmware I am experiencing different performance issues. First, the latest firmware after coming up does significantly less than it used to. For 2.4 GHz where before it would do ~50Mbps it now can only average ~30Mbps (the rate is sporadic though anywhere from 10Mbps to 40Mbps) and this is about 3 inches away from my antennas on an unused channel. Secondly sometimes I have seen it drop down to < .1 Mbps. I grabbed the fw_stats. One thing that seems drastically different between my 2.4 Ghz and my 5 Ghz is that 2.4 has extremely high error counts where my 5 GHz is < 400. Could this be a symptom of misconfiguration or more firmware issues?
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>> The only thing that comes to mind is that this could be related to
>> (mis)calibration.
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>> Does your card contain calibration in EEPROM or is it out-of-band? Do
>> note: many cards found in routers have out-of-band cal data. If it's
>> in EEPROM this could be either a quirk in board.bin or otp.bin (which
>> is embedded in the firmware blob). You could try experimenting with
>> different firmware versions (including 10.1.467) to see if it changes
>> much.
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>>
>> Michał
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