[Make-wifi-fast] mesh deployment with ath9k driver changes

David Lang david at lang.hm
Wed May 30 20:52:41 EDT 2018


On Sat, 19 May 2018, bkil wrote:

> In reply to this thread:
> https://lists.bufferbloat.net/pipermail/make-wifi-fast/2018-April/001787.html
>
> Sorry for the late response, although I can see from yesterday's
> SmokePing plots that the issue still prevails.
>
> 1.
> You should definitely not allow rates as low as 1Mb/s considering:
> * plots of signal vs. rate,
> * topology of closely packed cabins;
> * mostly static, noise-free camp ground.
>
> Almost all of your clients were able to link with >20Mb/s even at
> 70-80dBm. Those below were probably just idling. I'd limit the network
> to 802.11g/n-only, and would even consider disabling all rates below
> 12Mb/s.

I have been wanting to do this on my APs for Scale (wndr3800 APs with ath9k 
chipsets) and have been unable to find how to do this on these chipsets.

David Lang


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