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From: Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@techwires.net>
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Subject: Re: Oops! (was: Support for Intel 5100 WiFi ?)
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On Friday 12 October 2012 01:11:21 Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> 
> In message <CAJ-Vmomb4Qm3sxQ-558FXiEe4ZJarYBRmvAKY-iT6-H5dXw_LQ@mail.gmail.com>
> , you wrote:
> 
> >What's the output of 'ifconfig wlanX list sta'?
> 
> % ifconfig wlan0 list sta
> ADDR               AID CHAN RATE RSSI IDLE  TXSEQ  RXSEQ CAPS FLAG   
> c0:c1:c0:8b:4b:f3    1   11  36M 11.5    0     85  37120 EP   AQEHTRS RSN HTCAP WPS WME

This is the expected result.

iwn(4) still (ab)uses the legacy rate control algo for 11n. This means
that you get the real 11n throughput because the legacy rates are
translated to MCS rates, but, the reported rates are still legacy.

-- 
Bernhard