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seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: Atheros QCA9377 slow speed

We've gone full cycle on that one
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 9#p2263149
Fuck.

Did the

Sep 27 18:41:56 laptop-ca kernel: pcieport 0000:00:1d.0: AER: Multiple Correctable error message received from 0000:01:00.0
Sep 27 18:41:56 laptop-ca kernel: r8169 0000:01:00.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Correctable, type=Physical Layer, (Receiver ID)
Sep 27 18:41:56 laptop-ca kernel: r8169 0000:01:00.0:   device [10ec:8136] error status/mask=00000001/00006000

noise go away w/ pcie_aspm=off ?
Can you disable the ethernet chip (in the firmware settigns) or does it help to blacklist r8169 ?

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gtarch

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Registered: 2022-10-14

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Re: Atheros QCA9377 slow speed

Did the noise go away w/ pcie_aspm=off ?

Yes, it did.

Can you disable the ethernet chip (in the firmware settigns) or does it help to blacklist r8169 ?

I disabled it in the firmware. The boot log is here: https://0x0.st/KMnG.txt

The speed remains unchanged.

Last edited by gtarch (2025-10-05 18:30:47)

seth

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Re: Atheros QCA9377 slow speed

There're currently no indications for any problem, you've a 80MHz VHT connection and an ok signal.

There's https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=309117 but that's asymmetric (doesn't affect WAN traffic) - any chance you put on a traffic quota via a firewall rule?
Also wrt rx bitrates being constantly > 200 (and typically > 400) Mbps, can you rule out any sideload traffic? Can you test the performance from a multi-user.target login and/or just monitor network traffic when you think there's nothing going on?

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gtarch

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Re: Atheros QCA9377 slow speed

any chance you put on a traffic quota via a firewall rule?

No firewall. Neither nftables nor iptables.

Also wrt rx bitrates being constantly > 200 (and typically > 400) Mbps, can you rule out any sideload traffic?

jnettop is showing no traffic on idle and about 20Mbit/s when running iperf test.

Can you test the performance from a multi-user.target login and/or just monitor network traffic when you think there's nothing going on?

Do you mean a tty login? Without a GUI session?

Edit: I ran systmectl isolate multi-user.target and tested from tty login. No traffic on idle, 20ish mbit/s with iperf.

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seth

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Re: Atheros QCA9377 slow speed

Do you mean a tty login? Without a GUI session?

systmectl isolate multi-user.target

I didn't pay attention or missed the edit, but

Edit: I didn't think about this earlier, but I tried Windows as well. It turns out that both iperf and online speed tests get better speeds there. 150Mbit/s for iperf and 50Mbit/s (the line speed).

3rd link below. Mandatory.
Disable it (it's NOT the BIOS setting!) and reboot windows and linux twice for voodo reasons.

Can you btw. get closer to the AP ("4 bars") and see whether the issue remains?
How much is your theoretical WAN speed, would a download against a fast WAN host expose the limited throughput?

wget -nv --show-progress -O /dev/null "http://speedtest.frankfurt.linode.com/100MB-frankfurt.bin" |& tee /tmp/wft.log

will write a log.
You can use either of ("newark" "singapore" "london" "frankfurt" "dallas" "toronto1" "syd1" "atlanta" "tokyo2" "mumbai1" "fremont" "sao-paulo") - so pick a location near you.

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