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Re: Inbuilt Wifi

From Chris Elvidge <chris@mshome.net>
Newsgroups comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Subject Re: Inbuilt Wifi
Date 2021-01-21 17:30 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 21/01/2021 03:45 pm, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 21/01/2021 15:39, Chris Elvidge wrote:
>> On 21/01/2021 03:24 pm, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>> For reasons not pertinent to PIs, I started researching wifi 
>>> performance, and would like the assembled multitudes to comment on 
>>> the correctness, or otherwise of what I have found.
>>>
>>> - All Pis with built-in Wifi use the Broadcomm chip
>>> - This chip is not capable of 5Ghz connectivity
>>> - Nor is it capable of 40Mhz dual channel operation
>>> - ergo it *cannot* connect at *more* than 72Mbps
>>>
>>> And its often _way_ worse than that.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Both my Pi3B+ connect to my 5Ghz wifi.
>>
> +++!
> 
> can you show what chipsets/drivers and what protocols they are using?
> 
> It would be nice to tabulate the results
> 
> 

lshw shows:
*-network
	description: Wireless interface
	physical id: 2
	logical name: wlan0
	serial: b8:27:eb:fb:cc:a1
	capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
	configuration: broadcast=yes driver=brcmfmac driverversion=7.45.206 
firmware=01-88ee44ea ip=192.168.23.152 	multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11

iwconfig:
wlan0     IEEE 802.11  ESSID:"CHRISPLACE-A"
           Mode:Managed  Frequency:5.3 GHz  Access Point: 80:3F:5D:FA:4D:FA
           Bit Rate=78 Mb/s   Tx-Power=31 dBm
           Retry short limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
           Encryption key:off
           Power Management:on
           Link Quality=70/70  Signal level=-31 dBm
           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

# cat /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/vendor
0x02d0
# cat /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/device
0xa9a6

02d0 is Broadcom



-- 
Chris Elvidge
England

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Inbuilt Wifi The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-21 15:24 +0000
  Re: Inbuilt Wifi Chris Elvidge <chris@mshome.net> - 2021-01-21 15:39 +0000
    Re: Inbuilt Wifi The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-21 15:45 +0000
      Re: Inbuilt Wifi Chris Elvidge <chris@mshome.net> - 2021-01-21 17:30 +0000
        Re: Inbuilt Wifi Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2021-01-21 22:52 +0000
  Re: Inbuilt Wifi druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2021-01-21 17:24 +0000
  Re: Inbuilt Wifi A. Dumas <alexandre@dumas.fr.invalid> - 2021-01-21 17:42 +0000
    Re: Inbuilt Wifi Richard Jones <news@rgjones.screaming.net> - 2021-01-21 18:15 +0000
  Re: Inbuilt Wifi alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2021-01-21 18:09 +0000
  Re: Inbuilt Wifi "A. Dumas" <alexandre@dumas.fr.invalid> - 2021-01-25 09:12 +0100
    Re: Inbuilt Wifi "A. Dumas" <alexandre@dumas.fr.invalid> - 2021-01-25 09:16 +0100
      Re: Inbuilt Wifi "A. Dumas" <alexandre@dumas.fr.invalid> - 2021-01-25 09:27 +0100
        Re: Inbuilt Wifi "A. Dumas" <alexandre@dumas.fr.invalid> - 2021-01-25 09:39 +0100

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