[Click] Madwifi monitor mode performance

[Yongheng Qi]

Dear Javier

>From your rate value, You used 11g? now, I develop on 11n.

I am not test the 11g monitor throughput.

but in theory, monitor will the same throughput as ap-sta mode.

if not, maybe serverl reasons:

first, monitor mode will receive all same channel packets and give to click
FromHost.

maybe it's a bottleneck at the channel is very busy. ap-sta mode droped the
packet not itself at driver.

second, maybe your ap-sta mode use super-G mode. I don't analyse the super-G
frame.

but it should like 11n aggr. blockack will improve thoughput.

you can use omnipeek catch the frame ap-sta mode and monitor mode at
testing.

should comprehend thay frame difference. and optimize it.

I am very glad communicate with you, Thanks.

2009/12/1 Javier Sánchez <javier.recacha at gmail.com>

> Hi Yongheng Qi and Click users,
>
> Sorry for disturbing you, but I am very, very interested on a sentence you
> said.
>
> “the monitor mode is our optimized. so it can get the same throughout
> put as ap sta mode.”
>
> I tried to optimize the driver too, I tried to implement atheros FF
> and atheros compresion into ath_tx_startraw(), but I only achieve:
>
>   Click + monitor mode + pseudo IBSS: 13 Mbps (iperf, rate 24M)
>   Normal operation ap mode + managed mode: 18 Mbps (iperf, rate 24M)
>
> Can you (or someone) share how to achived this¿? Some hint?
>
> Thanks
> Javier
>



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