wifi bit rate

[John Horne]

On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 19:04 -0700, JD wrote:
> On 05/22/2012 03:12 PM, John Horne wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 13:18 -0700, JD wrote:
> >> Any wifi protocol savvy people who can explain this:
> >>
> >> iwconfig wlan0
> >> wlan0     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:"Private"
> >>             Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.452 GHz  Access Point:
> >> 00:AA:BB:CC:DD:EE
> >>             Bit Rate=18 Mb/s   Tx-Power=27 dBm
> >>             Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr=2346 B   Fragment thr=2346 B
> >>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Did you set the RTS and frag values shown above? I'm not sure but think
> > that iwconfig will default these to 'off'. You may want to try setting
> > them to off to see if it improves things.
> >
> >
> >
> > John.
> >
> That seems to be done by the wpa_supplicant application???
> I do not use iwconfig to perform association with the AP.
> 
Hi,

But you can change them on the fly :-)
Just run (as root) 'iwconfig wlan0 rts off frag off' from the command
line. If things don't improve then you can set them back ('iwconfig
wlan0 rts 2346 frag 2346').




John.

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