Bug 78341 - [iwlwifi] Low throughput on Centrino 6250
Summary: [iwlwifi] Low throughput on Centrino 6250
Status: CLOSED DOCUMENTED
Alias: None
Product: Drivers
Classification: Unclassified
Component: network-wireless (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86-64 Linux
: P1 normal
Assignee: drivers_network-wireless@kernel-bugs.osdl.org
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Reported: 2014-06-19 09:34 UTC by ValdikSS
Modified: 2014-06-24 09:28 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Kernel Version: 3.15.1
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Regression: No
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Description ValdikSS 2014-06-19 09:34:50 UTC
Hello.
It seems that I always had wireless speed issue with my Intel Centrino 6250 adapter in Linux. I had a pretty cheap AP without MIMO and I thought that's AP issue, but now I have TP-Link TL-WDR4300 with 3x3 MIMO and I here are the results:

Tested with wget --no-passive-ftp -O /dev/null 'ftp://192.168.5.10/Anime/AIR/\[uguu~\]_AIR_01v3_\(BD-1080p\)_\[976D39A4\].mkv' --report-speed=bits

Linux, 2.4GHz. Link speed 130-144 MBit/s, wget result: ~40 MBit/s
Linux, 5GHz. Link speed 270-300 MBit/s, wget result: 49-53 MBit/s

Windows, 2.4GHz. Link speed 130 MBit/s, wget result: 48-52 MBit/s
Windows, 5Ghz. Link speed 300MBit/s, wget result: 72-88 MBit/s

03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250 [Kilmer Peak] [8086:0089] (rev 35)
Lenovo X220
192.168.5.10 is connected to LAN port so no NAT is involved.
Comment 1 Emmanuel Grumbach 2014-06-24 07:43:22 UTC
please try 11n_disable=8
Comment 2 ValdikSS 2014-06-24 08:26:39 UTC
(In reply to Emmanuel Grumbach from comment #1)
> please try 11n_disable=8

Thanks, that helped. Are there any problems with this option so it's not enabled by default?
Found this https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/1/266
My NIC is supported by iwldwm, and with 11n_disable=8 it seems to work much faster (as in Windows). Should I expect stability issues?
Comment 3 Emmanuel Grumbach 2014-06-24 09:28:30 UTC
Yes - we've had issues with this feature. So I disabled it by default because few people really need throughput and most users need stability.

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