If you are using "ath9k_htc" driver, setting bit rate is not possible. This driver is using the firmware rate control mechanism (IEEE80211_HW_HAS_RATE_CONTROL).
---- Chun-Yeow On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 9:17 PM, Steger, Marco via Devel <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Bob, dear all, > > I have performed several tests using 11s in the last days and the results are > really looking promising. Like expected the bitrate is decreasing when I move > one node away from a second one. For further experiments it would be great to > use one specific bitrate. I tried to use iw command for that > "iw dev mesh set bitrates mcs-2.4 4" > "iw dev mesh set bitrates legacy-2.4 1" > > But this don't work for me. Is there a way to set the bitrate to a fixed > value? > > Would be really great if you can help me with that! > > Best regards and thanks in advance, > Marco > >>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >>Von: Bob Copeland [mailto:[email protected]] >>Gesendet: Mittwoch, 18. Februar 2015 16:53 >>An: Steger, Marco; [email protected] >>Betreff: Re: 802.11s performance testing - tools and tips >> >>On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 03:40:53PM +0000, Steger, Marco via Devel wrote: >>> How is the bitrate set? Who is setting/changing the bitrate? Why? Is >>> there a formula? I think it is maybe somehow related to the metric but >>> I'm not sure. >>> Would be great if someone has a short explanation or a link for me!!! >> >>Bitrate selection is the province of the rate control algorithm, generally it >>is >>Minstrel. >> >>See: >>https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/mac80211/ratec >>ontrol/minstrel >> >>-- >>Bob Copeland %% http://bobcopeland.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.open80211s.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.open80211s.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel
