[Bloat] Steam In Home Streaming on ath9k wifi

Jan Ceuleers jan.ceuleers at gmail.com
Sun Nov 26 05:53:04 EST 2017


On 26/11/17 11:05, Jonathan Morton 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. So this is clearly "unnecessary"
from the point of view of the AP itself, but it does make the AP a
better citizen to be aware of who else is trying to access the medium.


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