On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 03:49:10PM -0400, Dan Lanciani wrote: > David Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > |(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.) > > Exactly. Which is why I said it is probably a complex function of just > when/if the collisions (in the sense of the transmitter being on when > you need to hear an ACK) happen.
You will have to do the math, but I estimate that if you use standard 802.11 timings, the stations will have to be at least 17 miles apart before the function gets complicated. 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
