From 813c4cefcf329d94a1973eefff4213aade053ffb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Conrad Lara - KG6JEI Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2016 17:33:37 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] feature: Decrease WIFI Beacon rate in Mesh mode to around 2 times a second. This changes the beacon rate from once every 100tu's to once every 500tu's 1tu=1024 microseconds This will decrease the amount of RF time being used by beacon packets. This is especially important on 900MHz and 2.4GHz using 5MHz wide channels where 10 nodes beaconing 10x a second at ~256kbit/s can use up around 45% of the RF channel in beacons alone. Other bands and channels and widths are not expected to see as significant an advantage due to the faster data rates. --- files/etc/config.mesh/wireless | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/files/etc/config.mesh/wireless b/files/etc/config.mesh/wireless index 3e67e759..a523e331 100644 --- a/files/etc/config.mesh/wireless +++ b/files/etc/config.mesh/wireless @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ config wifi-device radio0 option distance option country option htmode HT20 + option beacon_int 500 include /etc/aredn_include/radio0path config wifi-iface