On 12/23/2009 09:40 AM, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: > Patrick Shirkey wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> >> I had a thought that maybe the network sound card should not be using >> ethernet but instead wireless 802.11n. >> >> The ralink rt2870 chipset is well supported at full 300Mb/s on Linux and >> has open source drivers. >> >> I think this would open up a lot of opportunities with a wireless sound >> card. >> >> I'm not sure how many are on the market right now but I haven't heard of >> any yet so there is a big opportunity there to fill a gap. >> > low latency audio over wireless is fundamentally impossible. > > it's a shared medium, pretty much like thicknet or any other hub or bus > network. if two endpoints ever send at the same time (and they will), > the packets will clash and trigger resends after a non-deterministic > delay (so as to avoid endless re-clashing if two endpoints happen to be > "in sync"). > > the only thing that would work over wireless is heavily-buffered media > center stuff for consumers, because nobody cares if there's half a > second delay between your pressing play and the start of the movie. >
So there's absolutely no way that a keyboard, pc, mixer, speaker set transferring data over 802.11n could be made to work? For example in a home studio setting... Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
