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From: Jonathan Morton <chromatix99@gmail.com>
To: "Török Edwin" <edwin+ml-cerowrt@etorok.net>
Cc: cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net, bloat <bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: Re: [Bloat] [Cerowrt-devel] cerowrt 3.3.8-17: nice latency improvements, some issues with bind
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 13:20:52 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D247743C-68C7-41A8-80C1-5F51302054D1@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <502F6279.1090708@etorok.net>


On 18 Aug, 2012, at 12:38 pm, Török Edwin wrote:

> Shouldn't wireless N be able to do 200 - 300 Mbps though? If I enable debugging in iwl4965 I see that it
> starts TX aggregation, so not sure whats wrong (router or laptop?). With encryption off I can get at most 160 Mbps.

That's only the raw data rate - many non-ideal effects conspire to reduce this by at least half in practice.

I don't think anyone has ever seen the full theoretical throughput on wireless - at this point it's just a marketing number to indicate "this one is newer and better" to the technically illiterate.

 - Jonathan


  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-18 10:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <502E064C.50305@etorok.net>
2012-08-17 18:05   ` Dave Taht
2012-08-18  9:38     ` Török Edwin
2012-08-18 10:20       ` Jonathan Morton [this message]
2012-08-18 17:07       ` Dave Taht
2012-08-18 18:04         ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2012-08-25 13:56         ` Török Edwin
2012-08-25 18:09           ` Dave Taht

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