> The wireless ISP business is a bit of a special case in this regard, where > P2P traffic is especially nasty. > > It's not the bandwidth, it's the number of packets being sent out. One > customer, talking to twenty or fifty remote hosts at a time, can "kill" a > wireless access point in some instances. All those little tiny packets tie up > the AP's radio time, and the other nine customers call and complain.
Packets per second performance is specially low with Wi-Fi and Mesh Wi-Fi, but not with all wireless technologies. WiMAX in the standards side and some proprietary protocols have much better media access mechanisms that can better withstand P2P and VoIP. Rubens
