----- Original Message ----- > From: "William Herrin" <b...@herrin.us>
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Jay Ashworth <j...@baylink.com> wrote: > > You're saying that *receiving* multicast streams over WLAN works > > poorly? > > I don't have any experience with it, but here's what Google told me: > > http://www.wireless-nets.com/resources/tutorials/802.11_multicasting.html > > "When any single wireless client associated with an access point has > 802.11 power-save mode enabled, the access point buffers all multicast > frames and sends them only after the next DTIM (Delivery Traffic > Indication Message) beacon, which may be every one, two, or three > beacons (referred to as the “DTIM interval”). [...] default 100 > millisecond beacon interval" Thanks for doing my googling for me, Bill. :-) I'll do some more; I would sort've expect that might be something the firmware in enterprise-class APs would handle better (where by better, I mean "not permitting one client to manhandle the entire network" :-). Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274