> The basic rate is an issue that wireless networking will need to > address since it effects more than just beacons, all broadcast and > multicast traffic are sent out at a slow rate and take far too much air > time. At some point the beacons will have to be sent at a faster rate > than 1 or 2 mbps thus breaking 802.11b at some point in the future. > When this speed increases beacons will take less air time.
One workaround that appears to help with the multicast/broadcast issue is not to advertise the lowest rates (e.g. only 5.5 Mbps & 11 Mbps). Yes, this does decrease coverage, but it prevents users associated at 1 Mbps from drastically affecting the throughput of the users associated at 11 Mbps. -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
