When you say a user may have poor signal quality, and thus consume excessive bandwidth by way of retransmits that should only affect the users associated with that access point. I had never thought of retransmits as a bandwidth hog, but then again perhaps I have just never seen it happen. Let me reword that as the average user with a good link cannot consume excessive bandwidth if it's throttled at the gateway. :-) Thanks for pointing that out, it's a good point.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Seth Zirin Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 12:25 AM To: Fred Weston; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [BAWUG] RE: How Can I control the customers bandwidth This is simply not true. A user could be given a very low bandwidth limit at the upstream gateway to the wire yet consume much of the wireless link with a non-responsive UDP flow or a bad signal that causes repeated retransmissions. A comprehensive bandwidth management mechanism will control and coordinate access to the wireless media so that no station, hidden, impaired or otherwise, transmits unless permitted or scheduled. Without this level of media control, little prevents a single station from consuming most of the wireless link with something as trivial as a preloaded flood ping. Several companies make wireless equipment that controls access at the MAC layer. Names that come to mind include Karlnet, Broadstone Networks and Alvarion. Seth Fred Weston wrote: >My point was simply that the average user cannot utilize any more >bandwidth than is available to them at the point where the wireless >network becomes the Internet, so it makes sense to manage it there. > -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
