I found out last night that my 11b wifi is not good enough for my DVB-T recorded nuv's. I have about 4 clients (mixed 11b/g) connected. When I try and play a file from a Samba share, it pauses/jumps every few frames.
I have a spare 11g router sat on the desk (not plugged in) but I only have a couple of 11g clients so I fear that the router will only be able to operate in 11b mode when any of the 11b clients connect. Its a D-Link DI-724P+ if anyone can confirm this is wrong I would be happy. Also, knoppmyth doesn't support the DLink PCI Wifi cards I have, so I think I am going to have to look at cables :( On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 19:18:21 -0600, Robert Denier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Everyone probably knows this, but just in case they don't.. > > Anytime you see a wireless speed you can probably cut it in half for the > actual speed you get. Furthermore the more wireless clients you have on > a channel, even if they are not transmitting, the slower the network > operates, although its not a huge difference. At leasts thats my > experience with 802.11b networks and the orinoco driver series. > > One small point. I've connected 10Mb devices to a cheap 10/100 hub and > everything works fine. I don't know what its actually doing internally > of course. Of course if your still using hubs and having bandwidth > issues, well switches were quite cheap last I looked. > > As a final comment. If your doing anything beyond web browsing. (I.E. > mythtv or playing multimedia files over a network, then avoid 802.11b as > much as feasible. It simply isn't fast enough to keep everything > responsive. That doesn't mean you can't use it for those purposes where > you truly need it, but well sometimes the time you save not running a > cable, you lose later. 802.11g might solve those issues, but I've never > seriously tried to get it working under linux.) (Netgear MA311 pci > cards with the orinico and/or hostap driver series are my > recommendations for linux for 802.11b.) > > Matt Mossholder wrote: > > > Brad, > > Just to clear something up... a 10Mbit client connected to a > > 100Mbit network does NOT "10x the bandwidth it is using, because it is > > time that matters." The only way to connect a 10Mbit client to a > > 100Mbit network is via a switch or bridge, which does rate conversion > > on each frame. Hench, a 10Mbit client's traffic will be converted to > > 100Mbit when the frame is sent out by the switch. The time in between > > the frames to/from the 10Mbit client is free for use by other systems. > > > > Now, if we are talking about something like 802.11, that's a > > different story.... 802.11b clients definitely have a negative impact > > on the 802.11g traffic, when the b and g clients are both on the same > > channel. This is because everything is a broadcast, and in this > > instance, it really is the time that matters. The 802.11g clients > > can't talk or be talked to while the 802.11b systems are...speaking... > > so...slowly.... > > > > I agree with everything else though :) > > > > --Matt > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > -- GMAIL is 'da bomb baby....YEAH
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