[Bloat] Dual Channel Wi-Fi

[Sebastian Moeller]

I am with David, this is going to be fun on densely populated apartment buildings. For people with no RF-competition it is sort of a "nice" trick to more or less go "duplex".

What a I missing?

Best Regards
	Sebastian



> On Sep 13, 2019, at 08:13, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> There's more to it than that.
> 
> https://www-res.cablelabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/24150908/Dual-Channel-Wi-Fi-Performance-Test-Report-June-2019.pdf
> 
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 7:03 AM David Lang <david at lang.hm> wrote:
>> 
>> it's an optimization that will work well when there is only one person using the
>> network, and utterly collapse when there is a lot of use.
>> 
>> it assumes that 'high priority' and bulk things only move in one direction, it
>> uses more channels, which will cause more collisions with other users and other
>> networks.
>> 
>> a fairly typical type of idea to someone who doesn't look at what's actually
>> happening at the RF level.
>> 
>> David Lang
>> 
>> On Fri, 13 Sep 2019, Etienne Champetier wrote:
>> 
>>> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 14:47:38 +0900
>>> From: Etienne Champetier <champetier.etienne at gmail.com>
>>> To: bloat <bloat at lists.bufferbloat.net>
>>> Subject: [Bloat] Dual Channel Wi-Fi
>>> 
>>> I'm curious what people on this mailing list think about this Wi-Fi
>>> optimisation
>>> 
>>> https://www.cablelabs.com/technologies/dual-channel-wi-fi
>>> https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/9972
>>> 
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