Rate seems limited to 1M

[David Ehrmann]

What signal strength does the Gentoo laptop report at various locations?

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:04 PM,  <GNUtoo at no-log.org> wrote:
> Hello,
> I've several clients:
> *gentoo
> *ubuntu
> *windows XP
>
> And all of the 3 kind of clients report rates of 1Mb/s.
> (using iwconfig or the icon in widows XP)
>
> I've put my gentoo laptop near the ap and it didn't change the
> rate(iwconfig on the laptop still reported 1M)...
> So I've ran a file transfer using sftp and artificially put the rate at
> 54M...near the router it's at more than 1MB/s,and going at the place where
> the laptop should be it's more than 500k/s and with the rate at 1M it's
> less than 100k...
> And I don't know how to solve it because of the windows XP client...i
> don't even know if it's possible to set the rate inside windows XP
>
> Here's my setup:
> *gentoo
> *kernel 2.6.26 vanilla
> *patch for allowing the master mode in the 2.6.26 kernel(allow-ap-vlan-modes)
> *ralink rt2500 pci with a special antenna
> *hostapd from git
> *this config:
> interface=wlan0
> driver=nl80211
> logger_syslog=-1
> logger_syslog_level=2
> logger_stdout=-1
> logger_stdout_level=2
> dump_file=/tmp/hostapd.dump
> ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd
> ctrl_interface_group=0
> ssid=my_essid_contains_underscores
> country_code=IT
> hw_mode=g
> channel=11
> beacon_int=100
> dtim_period=2
> max_num_sta=255
> rts_threshold=2347
> fragm_threshold=2346
> supported_rates=10 20 55 110 60 90 120 180 240 360 480 540
> macaddr_acl=0
> auth_algs=3
> ignore_broadcast_ssid=0
> wme_enabled=1
> wme_ac_bk_cwmin=4
> wme_ac_bk_cwmax=10
> wme_ac_bk_aifs=7
> wme_ac_bk_txop_limit=0
> wme_ac_bk_acm=0
> wme_ac_be_aifs=3
> wme_ac_be_cwmin=4
> wme_ac_be_cwmax=10
> wme_ac_be_txop_limit=0
> wme_ac_be_acm=0
> wme_ac_vi_aifs=2
> wme_ac_vi_cwmin=3
> wme_ac_vi_cwmax=4
> wme_ac_vi_txop_limit=94
> wme_ac_vi_acm=0
> wme_ac_vo_aifs=2
> wme_ac_vo_cwmin=2
> wme_ac_vo_cwmax=3
> wme_ac_vo_txop_limit=47
> wme_ac_vo_acm=0
> eapol_key_index_workaround=0
> eap_server=0
>
> i've also tried with this line commented:
> supported_rates=10 20 55 110 60 90 120 180 240 360 480 540
>
> Thanks in advance for your help
>
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