Basic data rates are the required data rates that all devices on a wireless network must support in order to connect to the network. These rates are used for management and control frames and can affect the performance of the network.
According to the Lecture 3 - Radio Frequency and Antenna Fundamentals - Part 2 document2, basic data rates are required data rates that all devices must support to communicate on a WLAN.
[References: http://faculty.georgebrown.ca/~jolenewa/courses/comp3049-intermediate-wirel/lecture-3—radio-frequency.pdf, , ]
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