Ralink rt2860 Broadcast rates

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On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Ramanujan Seshadri
<ksramanujan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Suppose i'm using an adhoc network, then shouldn't i be able to set the
> broadcast rates also ?

ifconfig wlan0 mcastrate XX

you have:
ucastrate
mcastrate
mgmtrate

>
> Ram
>
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> On 19 February 2013 05:52, Ramanujan Seshadri <ksramanujan at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi All,
>> >    I had a quick quesiton regarding the broadcast rates set by Ralink
>> > rt2860 driver. It seems like the broadcast rates are always set to MCS 0.
>> > Suppose i want to increase the broadcast rates to higher MCS's which
>> > function should i be looking into ?
>>
>> Odd; that's usually negotiated with the base station?
>>
>> Check "ifconfig -v wlan0" ; there's a set of default tx rates for each
>> PHY mode (11a, 11bg, 11na, 11ng, etc.) See what yours is set to when
>> you've associated.
>>
>>
>>
>> Adrian
>>
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