yesterday I finally got a chance to move a few dozen meters out of the lab and test the latest build of uberwrt "capetown" and debloat-testing.
I'd hoped with the debloating techniques in place in capetown - reduced buffers (4), reduced sw retries (2), hw retries (2, or so I thought) I'd actually see some packet loss.
and what I saw instead, was pings that would take as long as 1.6 seconds to complete, and zero packet loss until I moved completely out of range of the router.
I never thought it would be so hard to lose a packet in my life!
Is there some system tunable, somewhere, in the linux wireless stack that I've missed, in getting packets to actually fail in 10s of ms?
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