[Olsr-users] 802.11n and Beamforming in order to avoid airtime consumption

Jason (spam-protected)
Tue Aug 12 01:09:32 CEST 2008


Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
>>> I may be wrong (and I certainly hope so), but I seem to recall that
>>> 802.11n is not supported in ad-hoc mode, only in infrastructure mode.
> 
>> You are wrong...
> 
>> 802.11n supports adhoc mode... but most DRAFT 802.11n IMPLEMENTATIONS
>> don't support it.
> 
> That's excellent news.  Thanks for the correction.

If you don't already, you may want to keep an eye on the ath9k devel 
list [1].  There was a thread [2] recently regarding 802.11n adhoc.  In 
short, it's on the todo list.

[1] - http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k#Mailinglist
[2] - https://lists.ath9k.org/pipermail/ath9k-devel/2008-August/000163.html

hth,

Jason.




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