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From:
Klemens Nanni <kn@openbsd.org>
Subject:
Re: sys/iwx: support of 160Mhz window at 5Ghz
To:
tech@openbsd.org
Date:
Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:50:14 +0000

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22.03.2026 19:33, Stefan Sperling пишет:
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2026 at 03:06:50AM +0100, Kirill A. Korinsky wrote:
>> tech@,
>>
>> here a trivial diff which brings supports of 160Mhz windows.
>>
>> Tested with 80Mhz and 160Mhz windows on
>>
>> iwx0 at pci0 dev 20 function 3 "Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201" rev 0x00, msix
>> iwx0: hw rev 0x350, fw 77.30b1cbd8.0, address 98:8d:46:21:2b:6d
>>
>> with unifi nano AP with enabled roaming with firmware 6.7.41.15623
>>
>> Ok?
> 
> This diff reads fine to me but I cannot test it. I have an AP which
> is supposed to support 160MHz channels but even when I enable this
> feature this AP only ever announces 80MHz in VHTOP.
> 
> As far as I understand, wireshark should show wlan.vhtop.channelwidth
> in the AP's beacon set to 2 during 160MHz operation.
> I only ever see it set to 1 on my APs.

Same here, no matches for 'wlan.vht.op.channelwidth != 1', only 1.

But Wireshark describes this value as
	Channel Width: 80 MHz, 160 MHz or 80+80 MHz BSS Bandwidth (1)

which I read as "supports these three modes/widths.

Again, the AP itself does report one device using 160 MHz and some
WiFi Analyzer app also tells me my SSID supports it.

> 
> Can anyone confirm seeing tcpbench throughput higher than 400 Mbps with
> this diff? I expect it should go as high as 500 to 600, since we are
> currently capped at about 350 with 80 Mhz channels.
FWIW, here's iperf3 client (IPv6, TCP, one thread, 10s) on AP against
servers on devices, i.e. no hop/router between them.

Speed varies and immediately successive runs usually yield higher values
until it maxes out, e.g. "Notebook" averaged around 250, 270, 300, 280
and 320 Mbits/sec in that order;  results below are absoloute maxima:

Notebook (-current, iwx0 lines above)
867 Мбит/с WPA2
11ac 2x2 80 МГц
	[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr  Cwnd
	[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec   385 MBytes   323 Mbits/sec    0            sender
	[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec   382 MBytes   320 Mbits/sec                  receiver

Phone
960 Мбит/с WPA3
11ax/k/v 2x2 80 МГц
	[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec   742 MBytes   622 Mbits/sec  196            sender
	[  5]   0.00-10.03  sec   742 MBytes   620 Mbits/sec                  receiver

Tablet
2161 Мбит/с WPA3
11ax/k/v 2x2 160 МГц
	[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.02 GBytes   875 Mbits/sec    6            sender
	[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.02 GBytes   875 Mbits/sec                  receiver