I was looking to find out what speed's my orinoco gold card can give me and found that turbo NIC's can give upto 6Mbps while others just 2Mbps.My orinoco package doesnt mention it as a turbo,so how do i make out that it's a turbo card or not? But one thing i have noticed is that sometimes it gives me a bandwidth close to 5Mbps while sometimes suddenly drops to under 2Mbps.Is there anyway i can monitor the rate so that i know what kinda applications it can support? I do a lot of multimedia streaming which is bandwidth sensitive and knowing beforehand what bandwidth is available is very important. I have my cards installed under FreeBSD 4.5 and in ad-hoc mode with one acting as a gateway to the internet.
wicontrol isnt much help when it comes to knowing the exact bandwidth available because when i am getting 5Mbps it shows a TX rate of 11 and the same 11 when i am getting a bandwidth of only 3.5Mbps. Hope someone can share some knowledge about 802.11b throughput and rate control. Thanks in advance, Vinod __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
