Throughput drop with ath10k latest driver and firmware-5.bin_10.2.4.70.66

[Ben Greear]

On 10/26/2017 04:20 AM, KAVITA MATHUR wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In my AP , there are two radios, one ath9k based module WLE200NX and second ath10k based
> WLE600VX.
>
> I configured both the radios as AP in IEEE 802.11a 40 MHz HT mode and performed
> throughput test.
>
> Measured throughput with ath9k is 164Mbps while with ath10k it is 137Mbps. I could not
> understand the reason of this drop(27 Mbps)?
>
> My test setup was inside RF-Shield. There was no interference and system was associated
> at 300Mbps in both cases.
>
> ath10k driver was taken from ath10k git and firmware version is
> firmware-5.bin_10.2.4.70.66.
> ath9k drives was taken from stable backport release backport-4.4.2-1.
>
> kernel version : 3.12
> openwrt version : Chaos Calmer 15.05.0
>
> Please suggest me how can I increase the throughput of my AP.

Does it work any better with different firmware/software, or is ath10k just always slower
for you?

How much attenuation are you using?

Thanks,
Ben

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