Lock rate?

Jean Tourrilhes jt at bougret.hpl.hp.com
Tue Apr 8 12:29:47 EDT 2003


Dave wrote :
> > > Is there a way to lock a rate to a certain speed regardless of the
> > > conditions of the link?
> >
> > Yes, although it is not fully tested (i.e., please let me know if it
> > does not work ;-).
> 
> Does not work..;)
> 
> That is the one of the first things I tried...
> 
> I also tried "prism2_param wlan0 txratectrl 1" to see if the FW and
> combination of "iwconfig wlan0 rate 11M fixed" would do it...and no such
> luck...

	Remember that you can only set your *transmit* rate, the
receive rate will always be dictated by the other end of the link. So,
if you can download faster than the rate you have set with iwconfig,
that's fully expected.

	Jean




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