On 2014-12-18 17:10, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Dec 2014, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
>> In fact the airspy samples at 20 MSPS with 2 bytes per sample, but the
>> host converts that to the I/Q pairs at 10 MSPS, with 2 bytes for each I
>> and Q. (I was explained in #airspy)
> 
> I don't know what "#airspy" is.

An IRC channel at freenode.

> If the airspy sends 20 million samples per second to the host and each
> sample is 2 bytes, then the host would have to receive 40 MB/s of data
> from the airspy.  As I mentioned before, the usbmon trace showed that 
> the actual transfer rate was about 24 MB/s.

That is weird or an issue or what?

> 40 MB/s is a little beyond the limit of what most EHCI host controllers
> are able to handle, although an xHCI host controller ought to be able
> to do it.

The device is usb2.


I will try other ports and also recording to a plain harddisk. (not raid
or encrypted)

Udo
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