Re: Experiencing very slow browsing at times (atheros wireless)

[Petr Janda <elekktretterr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sepherosa Ziehau wrote:
> Haha, the AP is broken.  Its does not use single TX seq (as required
> by 802.11-1999 R2003, same as 802.11e for non-Qos data and bcast mgt)
> for data and mgt packets.  Your AP seems to use one TX seq for beacon
> (99% of mgt packets) and another TX seq for data.  That also explains
> why using lower rate will have better result: number of retries is
> reduced and duplication detection is performed only on retried
> packets.
>
> Please test following patch and see whether it makes the situation
> better in 11g mode:
> http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~sephe/skip_beacon.diff
Testing now, will let you know of success or failure within the next day 
or two. If this worked out to be the fix, I shall call you Sir Genius 
from now on :D

Thanks!!!
Petr