[Gta04-owner] Small update to 3.7-gta04 kernel: faster wifi.

Andreas Kemnade andreas at kemnade.info
Wed Oct 23 07:55:54 CEST 2013


Hi,

On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 14:32 +1100, NeilBrown wrote: 
> On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 09:55:52 +0200 Andreas Kemnade <andreas at kemnade.info>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > [..] 
> > > > Do you know what speed you can get with 2.6.32-hw?  I tried but my current
> > > > user-space doesn't seem to work properly with such and old kernel (which
> > > > surprised me).
> > > >
> > > Hmm, i got more than 1MByte/s with quite bad reception.
> > >  
> > I tried again directly near the AP and I got 12Mbit/s up, 14Mbit/s down.
> > 
> 
> Wow - that's about twice what I'm getting with (modified) 3.7 or 3.12.
> Though that pattern of down (to the GTA04) being faster than up (from the
> GTA04) is the same.
> 
> Though we might be testing differently.  I've been using "iperf" with
> defaults, so TCP for 10 seconds..
> If I change to using UDP  for 30 seconds I get 12-14Mbit/s up and 8-10Mbit/s
> down.  That's strange.
> 
The first test was with piping /dev/zero through the command buffer and
ssh (and then wait quite a time until the values become stable).  The
second one using iperf with defaults using TCP.

Greetings
Andreas Kemnade



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