Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 21:16:41 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lucent Orinoco - 500KB/s peak? Message-ID: <20010419211641.J1527@ringworld.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <20010419111400.A1623@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>; from brooks@one-eyed-alien.net on Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:14:00AM -0700 References: <20010419210545.H1527@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <20010419111400.A1623@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:14:00AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 09:05:45PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > Is it possible that there is a ~ 50% overhead in the wireless transfer, > > so I'm seeing a 11Mbit/s channel as effective 5.5Mbit/s? Or have I messed > > something up? :) > > It sounds like you're in 11Mbps mode and getting the expected 5.5Mbps. > I think I got 6 once, but 5.5 is pretty normal. Remember, this is a > shared medium so it's like running on a half-duplex hub. Eek. Completely forgot about the half-duplex part :) It's all clear now. Thanks for the lightning response :) G'luck, Peter -- You have, of course, just begun reading the sentence that you have just finished reading. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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