<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 31, 2018, at 2:52 AM, David Lang <<a href="mailto:david@lang.hm" class="">david@lang.hm</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">On Sat, 19 May 2018, bkil wrote:</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">In reply to this thread:<br class=""><a href="https://lists.bufferbloat.net/pipermail/make-wifi-fast/2018-April/001787.html" class="">https://lists.bufferbloat.net/pipermail/make-wifi-fast/2018-April/001787.html</a><br class=""><br class="">Sorry for the late response, although I can see from yesterday's<br class="">SmokePing plots that the issue still prevails.<br class=""><br class="">1.<br class="">You should definitely not allow rates as low as 1Mb/s considering:<br class="">* plots of signal vs. rate,<br class="">* topology of closely packed cabins;<br class="">* mostly static, noise-free camp ground.<br class=""><br class="">Almost all of your clients were able to link with >20Mb/s even at<br class="">70-80dBm. Those below were probably just idling. I'd limit the network<br class="">to 802.11g/n-only, and would even consider disabling all rates below<br class="">12Mb/s.<br class=""></blockquote><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">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.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">I also didn’t manage to disable specific MCS rates:</div><div class="">- supported_rates and basic_rate in /etc/config/wireless seem to only affect legacy rates, not ht-mcs-2.4 rates.</div><div class="">- "iw dev wlan0 set bitrates” only sets the transmit rate for the AP</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But what I did do at 10:45am today, June 8, was disable 802.11b rates with:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">uci set wireless.radio0.legacy_rates=‘0'</div><div class="">uci commit</div><div class="">reboot</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So at least the minimum rate should be limited to 6Mbit. We’ll see if this helps in the next few days as the camp fills, and if I hear any complaints:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.drhleny.cz/smokeping/" class="">https://www.drhleny.cz/smokeping/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>