yeah i know 802.11b isnt good enough for streaming video,but i am basically doing some research and 802.11b is all what i have with me to work on.i can later extend it to 802.11a but right now i need the solutions for 802.11b.any way i can continuously monitor the bandwidth available? Thaks, Vinod --- Jeromie Reeves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You would be better off with 11a for streaming. > 11b will work an many people use it as such. > Its just hard to keep a good, high rate out of 11a > under high load or multiple user's. > > Jeromie > > At 01:48 PM 6/29/2002 -0700, you wrote: > >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 >
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