Frequency of Wifi Beacon adjustable?

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The beacon interval of older wifi routers was 100ms, ie 10 pulses per second / 10Hz, but I was led to believe that in some newer tech this is as much as 1000ms (1Hz). This leads me to the question: Can the beacon frequency be adjusted in software?

I'd like to explore if it can be set to match the frequency of the Schumann Resonance, at 7.83Hz and experiment with people that are sensitive to RF signals to see it they are affected by it. If this can be done, then I'd like to have that as on option to select in the configuration of new installation, but I think one step at a time will be good :slight_smile:

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Is that not merely a psychological phenomenon?

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https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/plain/hostapd/hostapd.conf

Look for beacon_frame_int.

If you need to set it to something that isn't a multiple of ku units, you'll probably need to compile it yourself.

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It is already directly settable as beacon_int in the wifi-device section of /etc/config/wireless, or on the Advanced tab in the GUI.

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| Lynx Lynx
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Ah, let me have a look! Thanks!

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Wouldn’t it be easier to connect a led (any led) to a frequency generator?

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| Daniel flygarn12 Guidance Counsellor
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Wouldn’t it be easier to connect a led (any led) to a frequency generator?

How would that have any effect the an existing 10Hz pulse from wifi routers? The 10Hz pulse is there, I now have a way to adjust it, so I can start running some tests. Of course, this will take quite some time, since I believe long term effects or not, are what I'm looking for, so don't expect me to report anything soon :slight_smile:

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If you actually want to test medical effects scientifically you can put the led on the router and blink it with whatever frequency you want with a frequency generator.

If you don’t get any result, well then you have proven something.

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Can anyone post any good academic papers on this? I searched and came across a few studies.

Unrelated, but how cool is this:

How about we implement such human identification in OpenWrt?

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If it helps your study, I can provide accounts of second-hand RF sensitivity. New age woo reliably gives me headaches.

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Well 5GHz share bandwith with weather radar which is pretty much a pulse-doppler finder for flying dirt and water so why shouldn’t wifi have similar radar properties?
Especially with beamforming…

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