On 22-Dec-05, at 2:03 PM, Jim Gettys wrote:
>> Is it for web browsing, P2P messaging and/or phone?
>
> All of the above.  Voice is currently a serious challenge.  There is
> research here about why voice over more than one 802.11 hops has been
> losing completely; they've just succeeded in getting it working,  
> but are
> still understanding the phenomena of why there is trouble over  
> multiple
> (even 2) hops, where horrific packet losses have been observed.

"Research"?  I thought it was widely acknowledged that $20 pieces of  
consumer Wifi gear aren't designed to shuffle large quantities of  
teeny packets....