Hardware setup
The bench: MediaTek cards, the two PCs, the AP and the optional RF gear.
Three machines and the access point. Only the Agent has real requirements, because it is the station whose radio every measurement depends on.
Agent box — the station
- Linux, kernel 6.7 or newer — The mt7925e driver landed in 6.7. An older kernel will not bind the card.
- MediaTek MT7925 — PCIe or M.2, as the client-simulator radio. It is the card the project targets; the virtual-station work is sized around driving 20–50 simulated clients from this one radio.
- A second radio, optionally — For passive capture alongside the run. Configured separately as the monitor radio.
- iw, wpa_supplicant, iperf3 — On PATH. Baseline probes each binary's version rather than assuming it exists.
- Two networks — Associated to the AP over the air, and reachable from the Console.
Console box — the UI
- Any desktop OS — The Tauri UI is OS-agnostic; only the radio code is pinned to Linux.
- Wired to the AP's LAN side — This is what makes the probe cross the air exactly once in each direction.
- Agent address, port and pair token — Entered in Settings. Without the token the Agent will not accept the connection.
LAN receiver
- Any Linux or Windows box — On the AP's wired side.
- iperf3 -s on 5201 — Left listening. If it is absent the load step skips and the run says so.
Optional RF gear
- Programmable attenuator — A Mini-Circuits USB RCDAT or similar, for roaming work — it is what moves the station toward a cell edge repeatably.
- SMA cabling — For wired-RF mode, where the repeatable baseline lives.
- A second AP — Required by every MAPC row. Wi-Fi 8 station silicon is required by the Enhanced MLO rows.
Ports to leave open
- TCP 7745 — Console to Agent, WebSocket control.
- UDP 7746 — The probe echo. Always the WebSocket port plus one — change the port and this follows.
- TCP 5201 — iperf3 on the LAN receiver.