According to Martin Husemann:
>
>After noticing about 470 kByte/s transferrates via ftp,

That is what I get as well.  I did not worry about it too much because
that is what I got with a pcmcia network card, I assumed that the
pcmcia was slowing things down a bit.

> I changed the TX speed
>selection via wiconfig to 11, now wiconfig reports "TX rate (selection): 11"
>and "TX speed (actual speed): 2". (Before it was 3 and 2 resp.)
>

Your TX speed does sound low.  With my wavelans (same model as yours)
I get:

NIC serial number:                      [ 00UT01428811 ]
Station name:                           [ NetBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node ]
SSID for IBSS creation:                 [ NetBSD IBSS ]
Current netname (SSID):                 [ NetBSD IBSS ]
Desired netname (SSID):                 [  ]
Current BSSID:                          [ 00:00:00:00:00:00 ]
Channel list:                           [ 2047 ]
IBSS channel:                           [ 3 ]
Current channel:                        [ 3 ]
Comms quality/signal/noise:             [ 0 27 27 ]
Promiscuous mode:                       [ Off ]
Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc):            [ 3 ]
MAC address:                            [ 00:60:1d:f6:32:44 ]
TX rate (selection):                    [ 3 ]
TX rate (actual speed):                 [ 11 ]
RTS/CTS handshake threshold:            [ 2347 ]
Create IBSS:                            [ Off ]
Access point density:                   [ 1 ]
Power Mgmt (1=on, 0=off):               [ 0 ]
Max sleep time:                         [ 100 ]
WEP encryption:                         [ On ]
TX encryption key:                      [ 1 ]

And my machines are a bit more than a metre apart with a couple of
brick walls in between.

>What does "Comms quality/signal/noise: 0/27/27" mean?
>

Dunno - I would appreciate and explanation though :-)

>Is this an interoperability issue with the Lucent windows driver? I'm going to
>use the second card in a NetBSD machine later, will I see beter throughput?
>

Both ends of my connection are NetBSD.  As I said before ftp maxes out
at about 500kbytes for me, it did it with a normal ethernet pcmcia
card as well so I took it as being correct.....

BTW has anyone got the stats working on their wavelans?  I always get
0's for everything when I do a "wiconfig wi0 -o"


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