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Posted: **Thu Jun 26, 2025 6:44 pm**

Hi,

I'm new to working with the esp32 and still trying to wrap my head around how the protocol works when setting the protocol is set manually e.g.

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esp_wifi_set_protocol(WIFI_IF_STA, <protocol_value>);
esp_wifi_config_espnow_rate(WIFI_IF_STA, <phy_rate>);

My understanding based on the docs and the esp_wifi_types.h is that the <protocol_value> can be one of the following:

1 --> 11B

3 --> 11BG

7 --> 11BGN

8 --> LR

15 --> 11BGN+LR

As for the phy_rate looking at the wifi_phy_rate_t in the same header as above (correct me if I'm wrong):

0-7 --> 11B

0-15 --> 11BG

0-31 --> 11BGN

0-7 + 41-42 --> LR

0-42 --> 11BGN+LR

I am not using an Access Point - just broadcasting packets - and I am checking in the esp_wifi_set_promiscuous_rx_cb(<callback>) the rx_ctrl.rate, rx_ctrl.mcs, and rx_ctrl.sig_mode.

Here's what confuses me:

When I use rate 41 and the protocol is set to LR, I get rx_ctrl.rate=25 and rx_ctrl.mcs=0 (that one is expected). Where does the 25 come from? Which rates are used for the LR?

When I try 11N and setting the rate to 31, the received rate is somewhere in the 20s and the mcs is usually 6.

Is there a clear mapping between the rates and the protocol used?

Throughput looks the same at 1Mbps and WIFI_PHY_RATE_LORA_250K which seems to cap at around 350kbps for a payload of 250 bytes

Thanks!

Posted: **Fri Jun 27, 2025 10:25 pm**

>Throughput looks the same at 1Mbps and WIFI_PHY_RATE_LORA_250K which seems to cap at around 350kbps for a payload of 250 bytes

Please try increasing the payload size.

If we send a payload of 1470 bytes, the communication speed will be about 7060 Bytes/Sec (55.2M Bits/Sec).

In ESPNOW Ver1, the maximum payload size was 250 bytes, but in Ver2 it has been expanded to 1470 bytes.
Since ESPNOW for ESP8266 is Ver1, there is a limit of 250 bytes when communicating with the ESP8266.

Posted: **Sat Jun 28, 2025 11:52 am**

about 7060 Bytes/Sec (55.2M Bits/Sec).

Huh? (7060 kilo-bytes?)

Posted: **Sat Jun 28, 2025 2:22 pm**

I got the unit wrong.

about 70.6 KBytes/Sec (552K Bits/Sec).

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