On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Fred Matthews <fre...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Thanks for replying Adrian,
>
> OK, just for clarity, you are saying for 1-stream STBC NICs
> (AR9380/9280), when I enable STBC from hostapd, the driver only
> transmits in STBC (transmits multiple copies of data to each antenna)
> if it sending at MCSs 0-7 (1 stream rates), due to low signal quality
> or via fixing the MCS to those values. For all other MCSs STBC is
> disabled.
>
> Does the rate adaptation (minstrel/ath9k) tell the driver to use STBC,
> or is this done at automatically at a lower level?
>
> Any other information about STBC would be appreciated.
>
You should really look at the 802.11n standard to understand how they
implement STBC. From the driver side, from what I can tell, there is
never a downside (rate-wise) to enabling STBC for transmissions at
MCS0--MCS7. Thus, minstrel_ht turns it on by default.

Dan
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