Re: [SOFTMAC] Reduce default rate to 11Mbps.

2006-03-27 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 11:55 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 12:58:55AM +, David Woodhouse wrote: On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 08:18 -0800, Jouni Malinen wrote: On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 10:43:38PM +, David Woodhouse wrote: This patch makes us default to 11M,

Re: [SOFTMAC] Reduce default rate to 11Mbps.

2006-03-27 Thread John W. Linville
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 12:25:47PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote: On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 11:55 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 12:58:55AM +, David Woodhouse wrote: On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 08:18 -0800, Jouni Malinen wrote: On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 10:43:38PM +,

Re: [SOFTMAC] Reduce default rate to 11Mbps.

2006-03-24 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 10:43:38PM +, David Woodhouse wrote: This patch makes us default to 11M, which ought to work for most people. Is this code supposed to work with IEEE 802.11a (which would also use OFDM modulation)? If yes, please note that 11 Mbps is not a valid IEEE 802.11a TX rate.

Re: [SOFTMAC] Reduce default rate to 11Mbps.

2006-03-24 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 08:18 -0800, Jouni Malinen wrote: On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 10:43:38PM +, David Woodhouse wrote: This patch makes us default to 11M, which ought to work for most people. Is this code supposed to work with IEEE 802.11a (which would also use OFDM modulation)? If yes,

[SOFTMAC] Reduce default rate to 11Mbps.

2006-03-23 Thread David Woodhouse
We aren't particularly good at noticing when 54Mbps connections aren't reliable and backing down to slower speeds. This patch changes the default to 11Mbps. It's possible we'd want to leave it like this anyway -- even when we can handle dynamic rate adjustment, it might make sense to start at

Re: [SOFTMAC] Reduce default rate to 11Mbps.

2006-03-23 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 13:58 +, David Woodhouse wrote: We aren't particularly good at noticing when 54Mbps connections aren't reliable and backing down to slower speeds. This patch changes the default to 11Mbps. It's possible we'd want to leave it like this anyway -- even when we can

Re: [SOFTMAC] Reduce default rate to 11Mbps.

2006-03-23 Thread John W. Linville
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 02:37:35PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 13:58 +, David Woodhouse wrote: We aren't particularly good at noticing when 54Mbps connections aren't reliable and backing down to slower speeds. This patch changes the default to 11Mbps. It's

Re: [SOFTMAC] Reduce default rate to 11Mbps.

2006-03-23 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 16:04 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: Please do resubmit the patch w/ the comment changes. Below. I'd also like to see the outcome of the related discussion on the bcm43xx-dev list. The discussion with Hans? I'm not sure that's really related to the rates -- that's