At least under FreeBSD, you can queary the card and see what the link rate is for that moment. It will go up and down depending on signal strength. You can poke at the card with ifconfig, and ancontrol or wicontrol depending on the card.
Tim On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 07:27:18PM -0700, Vinod wrote: > 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 > > > > > __________________________________________________ > 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 -- Snail: Tim Pozar / LNS / 1978 45th Ave / San Francisco CA 94116 / USA POTS: +1 415 665 3790 Radio: KC6GNJ / KAE6247 "It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word." - Andrew Jackson "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite." - Bertrand Russell, "Skeptical_Essays" -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
