On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 07:03:44PM -0400, Dan Lanciani wrote: > "Moebius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > |Let me know if 25km on a radio that does not allow adjustment of the 802.11b > |protocol for distance works... Supposedly things should stop working for an > |unadulterated 802.11b radio at that distance.. > > Should they really stop working or just degrade? It seems like it would > be a complicated function of just when/if the extraneous retransmits collide > with the acks.
Each packet will be ordinarily retransmitted up to the retransmission limit, so throughput will degrade a lot. (I guess that for both the "right" length of data packet and the "right" distance between stations, the 802.11 ACK sent in response to the Nth transmission will be received as acknowledgement for the N+Kth transmission, so there will be fewer retransmissions than the limit.) Dave -- David Young OJC Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Urbana, IL * (217) 278-3933 -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
