John,
A new Study Group will be officially started at the next IEEE meeting in
Vancouver that addresses precise what you're talking about. The group will be called
Radio Resource Management. Don't hold your breath for anything tangible to come out
of there in the next 3-6 months though.
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Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 11:24 PM
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Subject: Re: [BAWUG] 802.11b data rates
At 01:48 PM 6/29/2002 -0700, Vinod wrote:
>I was looking to find out what speed's my orinoco gold
>card can give me
For Windows-based machines, QCheck http://www.netiq.com/qcheck/default.asp
has proved useful to me for determining real-world throughput.
I leave the remote side running on a spare Windows machine on
the wireless side of my WISP network so I can test easily from
customer sites. There's something to be said for downloading
a big file from www.quicktime.com/trailers, too.
After working with a half-dozen company's products in access
points, bridges, PCMCIA cards, handhelds, PCs and other gizmos,
I'm puzzled as to why they don't provide a more uniform set of
statistics and real-time status.
Certainly their engineers needed these tools during development.
Certainly they'd be useful to consumers to diagnose situations on
their own, which will save a certain amount of tech support.
Imagine a wizard to assist with antenna placement. Certainly
there's an underlying wireless standard or two with specific
pulse-points we'd like to watch.
But even the simplest stats seems to be missing from the
UI most of the time. Why can't I see the current raw speed -
11, 5, 2, 1? I haven't read the multi-hundred-page specs, I don't
know if there's a technical reason as to why we can't see it.
For that matter, this industry also needs a quick summary
measurement, a wireless "geek code" that describes the quality
of a connection: something that incorporated or described signal
strength, throughput, latency, and the variability of those would
be a good start.
- John
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