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--- Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> You can control the multicast/broadcast rates with basic
> rate set
> configuration (in hostapd.conf). I think the current rate
> control
> algorithms do not support dynamic rate selection for
> multicast/broadcast, so they will end up picking the lowest
> rate from
> the basic rate set. Anyway, if you include only a single
> rate in the
> basic rate set, that rate will be used for
> multicast/broadcast frames.
> 
> - Jouni

This does not help me. I'm in an IBSS network. 

And no, how would a RC algorithm dynamically select a broadcast rate. 
Broadcast frames are not acknowledged, so there is no feedback that could 
be used to optimize throughput.

Regards
  Joerg

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