quick survey.... How many of us have actually read the 802.11b spec?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Blazen Wireless" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 10:01 AM Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Slow down problems > Well all I know is that when I change the max speed to 1 or 2 meg things are > much better now with my customers that are beyond 5 miles It seems that if > my close users are access the AP at I am guessing at 11 megs it just screws > up the far clients in a sense their throughput is slow and the pings are > over 200-300ms! and the people close by are not really doing any downloading > on avg maybe 200-300kbps when the problems happen. I have bandwidth control > on the users to control throughput and that helps to control how fast they > go but still I see the same problems if I set the AP to 11, 5.5, 2 and 1 meg > auto step-down, it seems like that it cant step down quick enough for the > users that can only negotiate at 1 -2 megs? > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Scott Damron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 9:07 AM > Subject: RE: [smartBridges] Slow down problems > > > Actually, it does not really drop everyone down to 1meg, it just _MAY_ > slow down the 11meg folks in order to respond to the 1meg person. Hope > that makes sense. > > Scott > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of The Wirefree > Network > Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 9:08 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [smartBridges] Slow down problems > > > Huh!??!? This seems bass ackwards. If one client associates at 1 Meg, > it drops everyone down to that speed. Not the other way around. > Weakest link theory. If a client can not associate at 11 Meg and steps > it's way down to 1 Meg, then it CAN NOT be forced to connect at 11 Meg. > However, a client who is close in with 100% RSSI, could be stepped down > to 1 Meg based on some far out client. > > Sully > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Blazen Wireless > Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 11:56 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Slow down problems > > I have throttling in place now thats not the issue. The issue is in my > opinion and theory is at what rate the radios associate at.. If they are > only associating at 1 meg or less then yes you will have throughput > problems, if I have all my close customers able to associate at 11 megs > (5.5) and my furthest customers only at 1 meg ( 500kbps) then the > further users are not going to be able to associate at 1 meg but will be > forced to associate at 11 megs and since that is not a stable link they > will suffer as I kind of proved tonight but cant be 100% sure unless I > could verify what speed the users radios are associating at to the AP. > In theory the AP cant be associated to 3 to 4 radios all at different > speeds. They will be associated at the speed of the slowest radio or the > fastest depending on what radio has the best link I think? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Vasu (sB Tech Team) > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 11:27 PM > Subject: RE: [smartBridges] Slow down problems > > That's the basics of 802.11 std, when one user hogs the entire bandwidth > the remaining users have to share the bandwidth, hence bandwidth > throttling is important to ensure good and stable links to all users, I > think the XO series access point should solve your problem which can > provide dedicated bandwidth to every user. > > Vasu > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Blazen Wireless > Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 2:02 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: [smartBridges] Slow down problems > > Okay I think I have figured out the problem with my system. It seems > that when users are one (close users) they are associated to the APPO at > 5.5 to 11 megs possibly and the users that are further away are at 1 meg > max well if you have the near users at 11 megs tying up the radio and > the far uses cant connect at a slower speed for a better link / speed > quality then the far users suffer? am I correct in my theory does that > make any sense? > > So going forward we are going to have to plan some more sites closer to > the users having issues etc Has anyone else experienced this. I cant > verify 100% that this is true due to the fact the radios don't report > what speed they are associated at? Can someone think of a way to > validate this theory?? > > Thanks > > Martin & Steve > Blazen Wireless > www.blazenwireless.com > > > ----------ANNOUNCEMENT---------- > Don't forget to register for WISPCON IV > http://www.wispcon.info/us/wispcon-iv/wispcon-iv.htm > > The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List > To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe > smartBridges <yournickname> > To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe > smartBridges) > Archives: http://archives.part-15.org > > > ----------ANNOUNCEMENT---------- > Don't forget to register for WISPCON IV > http://www.wispcon.info/us/wispcon-iv/wispcon-iv.htm > > The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List > To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> > To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) > Archives: http://archives.part-15.org > ----------ANNOUNCEMENT---------- Don't forget to register for WISPCON IV http://www.wispcon.info/us/wispcon-iv/wispcon-iv.htm The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://archives.part-15.org
