>If i have an AP and someone who lives next door also >has an AP on the same channel, whats the best way to >quantify my loss in performance(in terms of throughput >or maybe delay)?
--- Jacques Caron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Depends on how much traffic is sent/received by that other AP. You can consider that you "share" the nominal bandwidth. If the two APs can "hear" each other, the total throughput of the two networks should be close to the available throughput. If they can't, then you have additional loss because of retransmits. ------------------------------------------------------ Ok i have another question which follows up. You said there will be loss due to retransmits if the two 802.11 AP's cant hear each other while the client can hear both. But if RTS-CTS mechanism is used, there shouldnt be any retransmission loss as there wont be any collisions,right? But then i guess the question of overhead of using RTS-CTS compared to the retransmission loss comes into picture. Any idea how these two compare? Thanks in advance, Vinod __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
