Balanh RTS/CTS is a good feature in case where clients can not hear each other. RTS/CTS has an added overhead of sending RTS/CTS and then real data can be transferred. This needs to be performed for each packet transmitted. If packet size is small, RTS/CTS could add high overhead and hence reduced throughput. Performed tests and network simulation shows that RTS/CTS may be good in case of large packet size.
Hope this helps Lalit -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of balan h Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 1:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [BAWUG] RTS threshold question Hi, The RTS threshold value in many Access ports is set to 2300+ bytes as default value. This is apparently to disable RTS/CTS exchanges. I dont understand why we do this. Isnt the RTS/CTS exchange used only in the 'Contention Period' of 802.11 where the Access point does no polling? Then shouldnt we enable RTS/CTS exchange most of the time by setting RTS threshold to a low value, to avoid collisions? balanh __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
