Speaking of this, is there any difference with UDP as opposed to TCP? I
have noticed 6Mbps+ with camera data alongside other web/email traffic,
and I think the camera is streaming using UDP...

Jason

> Sorry, cannot agree with that statement.  Just because a system uses 
> half-duplex does not mean that the speed is halved.  It will only be 
> halved if the acknowledgement packets are of the same length as the 
> transmission packets and this is very rarely the case.  For example, 
> if you send blocks of 10k and the acknowledgement packet is only 0.1k 
> then the time spent transmitting will be about 100 times longer than 
> the time spent receiving (even considering the time spent switching 
> between transmit and receive and the overhead in synchronizing.
> 
> We did a lot of tests on this matter to try and determine some rule of

> thumb that we could use.  We had heard that 60% would be a suitable 
> value to use, but in our tests we never got above 40% i.e 4Mbps for 
> 802.11b but and 20Mbps for 802.11g
> 
> The above tests were all carried out in a single room with no other 
> 2.4GHz equipment turned on within miles (tests were done on islands). 
> We were getting nearly 100% in terms of signal strength and link 
> quality.  However, there was the possibility of reflections from the 
> walls of the room causing problems which we had no way of 
> investigating. Last week-end we miraculously got in excess of 40Mbps 
> in an outdoor environment using 'g' equipment over a distance of about

> 100 meters. This was noted as an 'accidental' sidebar to a bigger test

> and we have not yet had a chance to re-check the figures.
> 
> Hope my ramblings are of some help and did not sow seeds of confusion.
> 
> Oliver Leamy
> 
> Ogenek Teoranta, Ballingeary, Macroom County Cork
> +353 (26) 47808 ; +353 (86) 8337664
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: [smartBridges] speed
> 
> Yep. Wireless is half duplex, so whatever your getting divide by 2 to 
> get realistic full duplex throughput.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roger Howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 9:49 PM
> Subject: [smartBridges] speed
> 
> 
> > Is there any way to tell what speed an airBridge is connected at
> without
> > doing a speed test? If it's connected at 1Mbps am I right in 
> > assuming
> that
> > the actual throughput will be about half that?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Roger
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