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From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 09:53:07 -0700
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Subject: Re: [Announce] Intel Wireless Multicomm 3200 WiFi driver
To: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@bombadil.infradead.org>,
	"linville@tuxdriver.com" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
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On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 00:00 +0100, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> wrote:
>> > On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 14:27 +0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> >>
>> >> What is the 11n configuration on these devices? Do they have 2
>> >> streams? Or are they just 1 stream?
>> >
>> > It has 1x1, 1x2 and 2x2 on for both 20MHz and 40MHz channels.
>>
>> Thanks -- BTW so this to me reads as number of TX/RX chains, but how
>> many streams does the device have? For example a 2-stream device can
>> be used in a 1x1 configuration.
>>
>> An example of our 1-stream device would be the Atheros AR9285, so
>> hardware-wise it only supports up to MCS 7.
>>
>> Will some of these devices be 1-stream or are they all 2-stream?
>
> The one I have should be a 2 streams one. What does 1 stream version buy
> if we have already built the 2 streams (configurable for 1x1) version?

Price.

  Luis