On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 9:36 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >  broadcast, and they were all able to see and join a shared chat session
> >  with each other.  The workload on the spectrum analyzer increased from
> >  18% (no-one connected) to 26% (all connected).  The chat session is
> >  consistent -- no-one is dropping out and new messages are seen by each
> >  laptop, with a few seconds of lag.
>
> I would interpret this as, "packets are being dropped like crazy, but
> retransmits assure that the chat message gets through by the time a
> few seconds elapse".  Is there any reason why chat would not be
> instantaneous otherwise?
>

This is easy to verify. Just add the following to your filter:
wlan.fc.retry == 1
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