Orinoco client claims the speed is 1Mb/s

[Bobby Curnow]

You can lock orinoco pcmcia and usb clients at 11mbps by going into the
registry and adding the string  TXRateControl , with a value of 5.
Bob C

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Jouni Malinen wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 08:31:18PM +0300, jar wrote:
>
> > Client:
> > NT4+Sp 6.0a
> > Orinoco Silver pcmcia, fw 8.72 + newest Orinoco drivers for NT
>
> > The problem is that the Orinoco client manager claims that the speed
> > from the client to the AP is only 1Mb/s. Although the hostap shows (from
> > /proc/net/hostap/wlan0/..) that it is sending and receiving at 11Mb/s,
> > no matter if the WEP is enabled or not. The test with FTP transfer gives:
> >
> > AP ---> Client: 5.8Mb/s
> > Client ---> AP: 2.2Mb/s
> >
> > Is the fault in Orinoco´s side or in the hoastap´s side? Any ideas?
>
> Well, if you can get 2.2 Mbps when the client is claiming speed is 1
> Mbps, it should be easy to figure out which side is incorrect.. ;-)
>
> Many Lucent/Orinoco client programs seem to use proprietary Lucent
> frames for some link tests. Most Intersil Prism2 firmware versions do
> not seem to reply to these frames in completely interoperable way and
> the client side may thus report incorrect information.
>
> In addition, that 2.2 Mbps is quite poor throughput, so I would assume
> that the Orinoco card is having some issues with TX rate control. You
> could try to verify from hostapd procfs file whether the frames are
> received and sent using 11 Mbps during client->AP test.
>
> --
> Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA
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