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Subject: Re: VHT support, take 2
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 12:05:29 +0100
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On Sun, 2012-11-18 at 12:03 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-11-17 at 15:34 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> 
> > > > The only thing mentioned which I had not considered is the per bandwidth
> > > > TX power restrictions. Where did these come from ?
> > > 
> > > As usual, they come from the regulations :-)
> > 
> > Which one in particular decided to add per bandwidth
> > TX power restrictions for VHT ?
> 
> German regulations have always had bandwidth restrictions, we've just
> fuzzed around it by restricting it to the lowest common power between 20
> and 40 MHz bandwidth.

I should add: with VHT coming with 160 MHz channels, I don't think we
can continue to work around it that way as that would be really
limiting.

johannes