Subject: Re: wireless lan (802.11g) cards
To: NetBSD Current <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>
List: current-users
Date: 03/01/2004 19:28:44
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On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 01:58:26PM +0000, Dick Davies wrote:
> What's the overhead then? I'd guess 11Mbps / 8 =3D~ 1.5MBps - the rest is=
=20
> lost in collisions, is it?

My understanding was that the rest was lost in "overhead in the
protocol".

I think that's partially the RTS/CTS absurdity already described,
but a further part of it is ineffeciences in the layer 2
implementation of 802.11.

I could be completely wrong, of course. :^>

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gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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