Re: General VHT rate-ctrl question

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

On 04/13/2016 01:01 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-04-12 at 16:48 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
>> If a station and it's peer can both do VHT, is there ever a good
>> reason to even try HT rates?
>>
>
> Not really; perhaps if you could do HT greenfield preamble (which VHT
> doesn't have) you could get something out of it, beyond that I don't
> see a reason to try.
>
> Unless, for some strange reason, it supports only single stream VHT and
> dual-stream HT or something really weird?

I was wondering if there was ever a reason that, say 450Mbps HT
would work better than MCS-1 for VHT.  Or, maybe a mid-rate HT MCS would
have more range than VHT, or something like that.

After fighting with the firmware's rate-ctrl all day, I am even more interested
in trying to make it use mistrel_ht.

Thanks,
Ben

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