[ath5k-devel] Long distance testing simulation

2010-03-10 Thread Gus Wirth
I saw that coverage class was recently added to the ath5k driver and it appears to be the first mac80211 driver to offer it. That's great! Now I would like to test it out without having to be 5 kilometers away. I have a testbed consisting of a few high power AR5414 and some low power AR5213a as

Re: [ath5k-devel] Long distance testing simulation

2010-03-10 Thread Derek Smithies
Hi, Acks are generated by hardware. One of the hardware registers might delay the acks - you could randomly try different registers and see what happens. however, the testbed you describe will give you erroneous results, even if you manage to delay the ack packets. Outdoor nodes (the only

Re: [ath5k-devel] Long distance testing simulation

2010-03-10 Thread Gus Wirth
On 03/10/2010 05:33 PM, Derek Smithies wrote: Hi, Acks are generated by hardware. One of the hardware registers might delay the acks - you could randomly try different registers and see what happens. Randomly poke registers? I'm going over the reg.h file to see what I can actually play