Ratecontrol 1 Mbps

Oleksij Rempel linux at rempel-privat.de
Fri Oct 11 03:15:12 EDT 2013


Am 11.10.2013 00:06, schrieb Matteo:
> Hi all,
> I created an IBSS network with 5 nodes.
> A couple of nodes are Android tablet Nexus 7 (2012) with kernel version 3.2.x where I plugged a TPlink-722N so ath9k_htc driver. The remaining nodes have ath5k driver.
> I modified the firmware in a couple of points to report the bitrate into ath9k_htc/tgt_tx_status file.
> Sometimes I noticed  that during the data transmission the bitrate stay fixed to1 Mbps and I don't know why. I thought that the common behavior was to try different bitrate. 
> Instead sometimes I can look different bitrate during the data transmission.
> Do I need update the driver? Is it common with IBSS mode?

Hi Matteo,

if link is inactive for some time (10 second?), the tx bitrate will drop
to 1 Mbit/s.

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Regards,
Oleksij



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