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From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
To: bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Bloat] Steam In Home Streaming on ath9k wifi
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 12:54:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171126115404.zz34d2ibo4yoyibf@sesse.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ca0cc7d1-9cfc-ec97-a3eb-3df930f9f4e5@gmail.com>

On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 11:53:04AM +0100, Jan Ceuleers wrote:
>> Another explanation for latency spikes on the order of 100ms is that a
>> periodic (and wholly unnecessary) scan for other APs is run, which
>> requires the wifi radio to be temporarily tuned away from the currently
>> associated AP's frequency.
> My understanding is that APs that operate on channels that are wider
> than 20MHz must back off to 20MHz in case they detect other SSIDs that
> are competing for the wider channel.

It's not about the AP, it's about the client. (APs can detect extension
channel interference without doing a scan, although I don't know if you need
this fallback at all on 5 GHz.)

/* Steinar */
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-11-26 11:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-21 19:08 Hal Murray
2017-11-22 10:31 ` Neil Davies
2017-11-23 17:48   ` Caleb Cushing
2017-11-24  9:20   ` Hal Murray
2017-11-24  9:34     ` Neil Davies
2017-11-26  7:25       ` Caleb Cushing
2017-11-26  7:29         ` Caleb Cushing
2017-11-26  7:55           ` Jan Ceuleers
2017-11-26 10:05             ` Jonathan Morton
2017-11-26 10:53               ` Jan Ceuleers
2017-11-26 10:55                 ` Jonathan Morton
2017-11-26 11:54                 ` Steinar H. Gunderson [this message]
2017-11-26 13:03                   ` Jan Ceuleers
2017-11-26 13:05                     ` Jan Ceuleers
2017-11-26 13:13                       ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2017-11-26 17:53               ` Dave Taht
2017-11-26 18:43                 ` Jan Ceuleers
2017-11-26 23:11                   ` Dave Taht
2017-12-04  7:24                     ` Caleb Cushing
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-11-18 22:14 Caleb Cushing
2017-11-19 16:28 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2017-11-19 21:18   ` Caleb Cushing
2017-11-19 21:27     ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2017-11-19 22:03       ` Caleb Cushing
2017-11-19 22:13         ` Dave Taht

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