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From: Alex Hacker <hacker@epn.ru>
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 13:01:28 +0600
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On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 02:39:06PM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On 18 September 2011 14:32, Alex Hacker <hacker@epn.ru> wrote:
> 
> > The chainmasks are limit set of antennas used for RX and TX, both settings can be
> > changed in debugfs 'ieee80211/phyX/ath9k'. The distance limit is all Aheros cards
> > property due to maximum setting for the ACK timeout. It can be set with
> > 'iw phy <phyname> distance <distance>' command. Of course, you need a high gain antenna
> > to achieve long range communication.
> 
> Just as a side-point; hasn't someone come up with a way of just doing
> software-based delayed ACK with Linux/FreeBSD, and ignoring the
> hardware-driven RTS/CTS/ACK retry stuff?
>
> Adrian

We do it in our propiertary driver, obviously not in FreeBSD or Linux. Longest link we
are tested in Australia is 74km it work well.

Regards,
Alex.