On 20.02.06 07:53 -0500, Brett Woodruff wrote:

> Hi, After doing some searching in the archives I found that HostAP
> is set to 2/MB here is a copy of what Status.php listed...
> 
> wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> 	inet 192.168.10.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.10.255
> 	ether 00:02:6f:3b:47:05
> 	media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet <hostap> (DS/2Mbps <hostap>)

AFAIK in hostap mode the ifconfig speed setting doesn't matter, as it
may use different speeds for each client anyway. Someone correct me
if I'm wrong.

> With this I haven't been able to get more than about 800K/sec
> download speed rates.  Within the archives a command of:

Is that 800 kilobytes or bits per second?

> I haven't had the time this morning to test the rates on this node
> yet, but if it does improve the connection rates, I was wanting to
> know how I can permanently save these settings to the node, as to
> when I reboot the node it reverts back to it's original setting.

You could add that wicontrol command to config.xml (as a shellcmd
tag). See <http://doc.m0n0.ch/handbook/faq-hiddenopts.html>.

- Manuel