The article makes seems to make the case that this has something to do with CSMA/CA. It does not. I has everything to do with having fallback rates (a good thing in WLAN) and adaptive modulation. This issue can be experienced with polling, scheduled MAC, etc. as well. It is why smart network builders prefer tight cells with most client links to any given AU achieving the highest order modulation. It is also how you can tell the novice who has not yet learned this issue - he/she is the one bragging about having client on a PMP network 10+ miles out. Such a person has not yet learned that such a client costs them as much a 10x the resources of the AU as a client in the 11Mbps cell of the same AU (assumes an 802.11b network).
- Patrick -----Original Message----- From: Tim Pozar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 4:17 PM To: Jim Aspinwall Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [BAWUG] One Slow User In The Hot Spot Can Degrade Wi-Fi Performance Interesting. This has been discussed for some time now on this list and on others. A solution that was offered was to lock down the AP to only higher modulation speeds. Tim -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless This mail passed through mail.alvarion.com **************************************************************************** ******** This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by PineApp Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer viruses. **************************************************************************** ******** -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
