Return-path: Received: from mail-oi0-f41.google.com ([209.85.218.41]:33881 "EHLO mail-oi0-f41.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751812AbcDMRBi (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2016 13:01:38 -0400 Received: by mail-oi0-f41.google.com with SMTP id s79so70874275oie.1 for ; Wed, 13 Apr 2016 10:01:38 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <570E472A.2040901@candelatech.com> References: <570D8956.8090806@candelatech.com> <1460534484.3057.2.camel@sipsolutions.net> <570E472A.2040901@candelatech.com> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 10:01:37 -0700 Message-ID: (sfid-20160413_190144_820232_382B3619) Subject: Re: General VHT rate-ctrl question From: Dave Taht To: Ben Greear Cc: Johannes Berg , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 6:18 AM, Ben Greear wrote: > > > 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. I just put up Andrew's old paper on minstrel, if that helps any. http://blog.cerowrt.org/post/minstrel/ > > Thanks, > Ben > > -- > Ben Greear > Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html