Unable to get 802.11n connectivity in 2.2

Guest

Will check this weekend on this card. Its been humming along fine since September. I need to bring the machine up to the release version and it is located offsite.. When i tested it it had the best connection speeds i had seen on Windows connections..Running on Advantech PCM9362. Sorry if this post left the wrong impression. One of my favorite cards. Next favorite Ubiquiti SR71-E. Only 400mw but nearly as good. Lower profile.

I don't know if your expecting massive speed increases with 802.11N but i only found modest improvements when i upgraded.

Guest

And truthfully i don't know if i would recommend spending 50 bucks on any of these cards. Try a used Apple Airport Extreme card for a good buy. Aka AR5BXB112. Mimo 3x3 and works well.

bonzi

I have the same problem here with my AR9280 card, will be interested to see what you find..

pLu

Compex WLE200NX with AR9280 @ 5GHz.

$ iperf -c nas
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Client connecting to nas, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 85.0 KByte (default)
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[  3] local 192.168.0.135 port 50579 connected with 192.168.0.160 port 5001
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  3]  0.0-10.0 sec   173 MBytes   145 Mbits/sec

Guest

That looks pretty respectable at 18 megabytes /sec.. Hopefully mine reaches those numbers. What do your initial connect rates look like? You seeing 300M connection? What kind of distance between client and AP? Client OS?? Clients using Atheros hardware as well? Dual rubber duck antenna's on AP??Clients are laptops?

pLu

@Phishfry:

That looks pretty respectable at 18 megabytes /sec.. Hopefully mine reaches those numbers. What do your initial connect rates look like? You seeing 300M connection?

wavemon says 270 Mbit/s.

What kind of distance between client and AP?

3.25 meters, AP is obscured by a TV.

Client OS??

Linux 3.18.

Clients using Atheros hardware as well?

Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260

Dual rubber duck antenna's on AP??

Yes, http://pcengines.ch/antsmadb.htm

Clients are laptops?

Lenovo X240

wavemon sometimes report 300 Mbit/s and iperf reports 159 Mbits/sec, and the APU is still suboptimally positioned.

Standard: 802.11na (becomes ng if Channel isn't explicitly set to a 5GHz channel)
Protection mode: off
Channel: 11 a/n - 64
Regulatory settings: ETSI, SE, Indoor
Minimum wireless standard: 802.11n
Enable WME: yes
Encryption: WPA2, AES

shaqan

@Phishfry:

I bought an Mikrotik R11e-5HnD just to see how pfSense acts with a 5ghz only radio. The dual band 2.4/5ghz Ath cards seem to default to 802.11ng on 2.2 snaps with no 802.11na options..

It would'nt even be detected in pfSense (2.2.1). I have it mounted on RB14eu card along with Atheros AR9285. pfSense detects the latter card just fine, but not the r11e-5hnd (Atheros AR9580).

Guest

My r11e-5hnd was deployed in an Advantech PCM9362 for an relative. It has been working fine with this being my first chance to upgrade it. Went from 2.2 beta(Sep27)to 2.2.2 without issue. It is working on the AR9300 driver i noticed. I noticed it was throwing out continual beacon errors before upgrade…

I have the rB14eu myself and found it works as advertised. I put 2 AR5BXB112 on the front and a MC7700 on the back. I didn't try an R11e card on it. I did have other atheros cards on it though.
You realize the USB cable is only needed on the 3G side if using wifi? Not that there is a "3G side" but with the provided cables and 10 pin header it services 2 slots on one side of the card...With a 5 pin cable you could do a single 3G/4G slot.

Guest

Did you try it in the AR9285.'s slot? Something don't sound right… Mine works fine and has since Sept.

shaqan

@Phishfry:

My r11e-5hnd was deployed in an Advantech PCM9362 for an relative. It has been working fine with this being my first chance to upgrade it. Went from 2.2 beta(Sep27)to 2.2.2 without issue. It is working on the AR9300 driver i noticed. I noticed it was throwing out continual beacon errors before upgrade…

I have the rB14eu myself and found it works as advertised. I put 2 AR5BXB112 on the front and a MC7700 on the back. I didn't try an R11e card on it. I did have other atheros cards on it though.
You realize the USB cable is only needed on the 3G side if using wifi? Not that there is a "3G side" but with the provided cables and 10 pin header it services 2 slots on one side of the card...With a 5 pin cable you could do a single 3G/4G slot.

It did work on linux. mini-PCIe module sitting in the same RB14eu slot. Though I had there another set of issues (with WPA auth). Worked fine without encryption though and apparently on full power.

Now that you mentioned it, I recall I tried R11e-5Hnd on pfSense first using it in some noname Chinese miniPCIe/PCIe adapter. I found that the signal output was limited to ~17dBm (going to be the case with RB11 as well) and thus I ordered RB14eu. "eu" for future proofing, might need 3G or LTE module at some point in the future, price difference between "e" and "eu" is only around 10 euros. Just forgot that I tested wlan module on pfSense some 3-4 months before ordering RB14eu

Thanks guys, gonna give it another try. First in FreeBSD workstation (10.1-RELEASE), if the RB14eu/R11e-5Hnd appears to be working there, gonna kick that linux from my router and return back to pfSense.