A little program to override the maximum number of stations that can associate with an Android phone when tethering (sharing the data connection over WiFi).

Invoke the binary without any parameters.

$ ./maxassoc

Currently, only Broadcom chipsets are supported (and not all of them may work).

Tested working on:

• Sony Xperia Z2 running Android 4.4

This is pretty much a working hack at this point. It's hard-coded to set the maximum number of stations for wlan0 to 32.

The program uses the brcm80211 wlioctl interface to send a WLC_SET_VAR command with the "maxassoc" command. That's it.

Modify the Makefile to point to the right cross-compiler and Android sources, then run make.

maxassoc

Copyright (c) 2017 Christian Kohlschütter

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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