The issues particular to wireless are things like 'channel capture', 'fairness', 'hidden node', etc.
One of the things you absolutely *DON'T* want to do is throw away upstream packets that arrive on a wireless interface. YDI is a (bad) joke. Jim Nigel Ballard writes: > I've been reading the thread, and I thought the original posting was quite > clear, perhaps I misunderstood his question. > > Firstly there's no 802.11b network on this planet through putting 11Mb over > the air interface. Still, whatever the 'real world' throughput there is > often a desire to manage it as opposed to leaving it wide open. > > In a commercial environment it is prudent to meter the bandwidth, especially > when you have a finite amount of it, and one kiddie on Kazaa can suck the > life out of it and ruin it for everyone else. Paying customers demand and > expect a certain level of service. > > If you aren't a Linux hacker, then there are black boxes that will do it, > they cost a few bucks. A good example is the YDI bandwidth Control Unit, > they take all the programming out of the equation and give you a nice user > interface. If Joe only wants to pay for 128k up/downstream then that's all > Joe gets etc. http://www.ydi.com/products/bcu.php > > Cheers Nigel > > Nigel Ballard > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.joejava.com > > > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > -- "Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure." -- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963) -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
