Hostapd and MCS rates

Krishna Chaitanya chaitanya.mgit
Mon Jun 22 01:28:33 PDT 2015


On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Mathieu Slabbinck
<matty.slabbinck at gmail.com> wrote:
> Done that now, but no immediate change is visible.
> But before digging any deeper, can someone post me the correct hostapd
> config to be able to have for example 72.2 MBit/s (mcs index 7) in n
> mode?
> Just to prevent bad config on my side.

The below config should be fine in 2.4GHz, 11n, 20MHz, SGI enabled
interface=wlan0
ssid=test
hw_mode=g
channel=6
beacon_int=100
dtim_period=2
max_num_sta=255
rts_threshold=2347
fragm_threshold=2346
macaddr_acl=0
auth_algs=3
ignore_broadcast_ssid=0
wmm_enabled=1
ieee80211n=1
ht_capab=[SHORT-GI-20]



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