Of course you could always turn down the beacon interval, 10 a second is usually fine from my experience and saves a lot of air time. Many APs let you tun this.`
Cheers, Cliff
On Dec 20, 2003, at 1:06 PM, Bernard Aboba wrote:
Jonn Martell said:--
What confuses me though is when vendors talk about possible QOS problems
with multiple BSSIDs? I simply don't get that.
I think what they are referring to is the effect of increasing the number
of Beacons on a single channel. For example, simulations at the Royal
Institute of Technology in Stockholm appear to indicate that with 5 VAPs,
approximately 20% of the AP's capacity will be used for Beacons; with 10
VAPs, 32% of capacity is used. So there are practical limits to how many
VAPs can be Beacon'd, regardless of how many a vendor might support.
For details, see:
http://www.it.kth.se/~hvelayos/papers/TRITA-IMIT-LCN%20R%2003 -02%20Handover%20in%20IEEE%20802.pdf
Links to these and other papers relating to VAPs are available on the 802.11 security website:
http://www.drizzle.com/~aboba/IEEE/
-- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
"It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong."
- Thomas Jefferson
-- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
