hostapd bit rate setting, Rate not more than 18Mb by a signal of -42dbm ...

[Beat Meier]

Beat Meier wrote:

>Hello
>
>How can I set bitrate at startup of hostapd?
>
>If I set after running hostap with
>  iwconfig ath0 bit 6M
>iwlist ath0 bit tells me
>  Current Bit Rate=6 Mb/s
>iwconfig ath0 tells me
>  Bit Rate=6 Mb/s
>but client wpa_supplicant has rate 48Mb
>
>If I set 48M for example of client and server
>ping doesn't work. I have a signal of -42dbm.
>
>If rate is auto the bitrate of client is 18Mb
>I have no noise (-95) and signal of -42.
>
>Why does the rate not go higher that 18M?
>
>  
>
Sorry what I have forgotten:
Algo is: ath_rate_sample of madwifi-bsd-20050702

>Power issues of madwifi, ok let it be ... nothing changes if 6Mb set or 
>54Mb set ...
>
>Any infos
>
>Beat
>
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