Sean, One thing I wondered about was whether it is possible to get other stats out of the wireless mac and report them back to the server. Signal strength is useful, but it does not seem to capture the case of noise bursts etc which cause loss of throughput. I'm thinking of anything which gives a good summary of instantaneous wireless throughput.
I did think about something to proactively test the link, but didn't find an easy answer. To send pings in a non blocking manner requires a reasonable amount of code (and possibly root access). In linux, netstat shows the TCP send-Q which would be a useful metric. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be an api to get at it [unless anyone knows differently?] Adrian -- Triode ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Triode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=16832 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
