I was pretty excited to be able to get the current build of kamikaze with the x-wrt extensions up and running on my WRT54G v4.
Software was installed from http://downloads.x-wrt.org/xwrt/kamikaz … uashfs.bin which has a build date of Tue Aug 26 04:42:40 CDT 2008
Everything comes up nicely and I've been able to configure it similarly to the way I has been using it with Linksys firmware -- basically a pass-through wireless extension of my wired network. The issue is slow wireless performance, when compared to the Linksys firmware.
Testing was done by using a network copy of a very large bzip-compressed file
$ scp 192.168.6.5:/Volumes/seagate-750-video/macmini.20080813.tar.bz2 - > /dev/null
and watching the network throughput at the interface on the PowerBook G4
$ ifstat -b -i en0,en1 30
As a baseline, the first test was wired. ~70,000 kbps was seen, which isn't bad considering the PowerBook was maxed out for CPU and that the ethernet segment is only 100baseT. The PowerBook G4, running fully-patched Mac OS X 10.4.1, is less than a meter from the Linksys, with a wood, lath, and plaster wall between. Turning on or off "Use Interference Robustness" did not make a significant difference. iStumbler was not running at the time the measurements were made.
Looking at wireless performance, a comparison was made between the Linksys 4.21 firmware and the Kamikaze 7.09 on several channels. Kamikaze looks to be about 1/3 the speed of the original firmware.
Channel Linksys Kamikaze
1 14,500 4,700 kbps
3 15,000 5,100
6 12,500 5,400(Speeds in kbps, as indicated by ifstat)
Load average is well below 0.1 with top showing something like 5% CPU utilization.
I haven't been able to build a new version as suggested in Ticket: 2639 as the environment isn't building on the Mac right now.
Any idea where else to start on diagnosing this one?
Wifi on WL-500gP is getting slow has the somewhat discouraging
Same Problem here in a WRT54gv4 ..
THIS IS A PROBLEM OF KAMIKAZE.. I just config one of the routers with this problem with a white russian and evereything was back to ok...
Configuration
root@MediaNet15:/etc/config# cat network
#### VLAN configuration
config switch eth0
option vlan0 '0 1 2 3 4* 5*'
option vlan1 '4* 5*'
#### Loopback configuration
config interface loopback
option ifname "lo"
option proto static
option ipaddr 127.0.0.1
option netmask 255.0.0.0
#### LAN configuration
config interface lan
option type bridge
option ifname "eth0.0"
option proto static
option ipaddr '192.168.6.253'
option netmask 255.255.255.0
option gateway '192.168.6.1'
option dns '192.168.6.1'
#### WAN configuration
config interface wan
option ifname "eth0.1"
option proto 'none'
root@MediaNet15:/etc/config# cat wireless
config wifi-device wl0
option type broadcom
option channel '1'
option distance '100'
option disabled '0'
# REMOVE THIS LINE TO ENABLE WIFI:
config wifi-iface
option device wl0
option network lan
option mode ap
option ssid 'MediaNet15'
option encryption 'psk2'
option hidden '0'
option isolate '0'
option bgscan '0'
option wds '0'
option key '<my PSK here>'wl0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:BF:31:7F:FF
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:445508 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:13772
TX packets:886130 errors:24 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:30170732 (28.7 MiB) TX bytes:1335930158 (1.2 GiB)
Interrupt:2 Base address:0x5000(Last edited by jeffster on 28 Aug 2008, 01:55)