From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
To: Daniel Halperin <dhalperi@cs.washington.edu>
Cc: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hti->control_chan is 15??
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:34:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D441756.5010702@openwrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimG05o=y2xGXh0YAmRqbuixifKp7xgmU7sH61Uf@mail.gmail.com>
On 2011-01-29 1:48 AM, Daniel Halperin wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> wrote:
>> My AP is an off-the-shelf Netgear:
>> WNDR3700
>>
>> It's only rate configuration option is '300Mbps', which appears to
>> turn on HT40.
>>
>> It is configured for channel 10 (for the packet capture) and actually
>> passes traffic there. It's just this HT Info thing with (primary-channel ==
>> (real_channel + 4))
>> that seems wrong. Note that when I had the channel set to 11, it was
>> reporting
>> 15 for the primary channel in the HT info.
>>
>> Looks like a bug in that AP to me...but would be nice if there were a way to
>> work around it, in case others have similar issues.
>
> Set it to channel 6, then?
>
> Yeah, I played with Netgear's APs (and D-Link's) for about 3 hours
> before I put them down and never picked them up again. Performance,
> configuration, reliability, etc., were horrible. I've found that
> Apple APs work well, but really hostapd offers the best flexibility by
> far.
I think the hardware quality of the WNDR3700 is pretty good. I'm using
it at home regularly (running OpenWrt of course).
- Felix
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-29 13:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-28 22:39 hti->control_chan is 15?? Ben Greear
2011-01-29 0:21 ` Ben Greear
2011-01-29 0:35 ` Daniel Halperin
2011-01-29 0:43 ` Ben Greear
2011-01-29 0:48 ` Daniel Halperin
2011-01-29 0:58 ` Ben Greear
2011-01-29 13:34 ` Felix Fietkau [this message]
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