With that inside like that, you can get reflections etc. It does the compression and M3P I'm sure as well. It should not incraase the latency that much and should not "fluctuate" like that normally.
------------------------------ * Dennis Burgess, CCNA, A+, Mikrotik Certified Trainer WISPA Board Member - wispa.org <http://www.wispa.org/> Link Technologies, Inc -- Mikrotik & WISP Support Services* *Office*: 314-735-0270 *Website*: http://www.linktechs.net <http://www.linktechs.net/> */ Link Technologies, Inc is offering LIVE Mikrotik On-Line Training <http://www.linktechs.net/onlinetraining.asp>/* David E. Smith wrote: > Dennis Burgess - Linktechs.net wrote: > >> Yes you have to have a good processor, it does compression. I also >> believe it does MPPP as well, and larger frame sizes as well to get >> higher speeds. Hence, processor usage is key. >> > > When I was testing this - pretty informally, two radios set on the floor > of the office about a hundred feet apart - the speeds weren't that much > higher, and the latency was all weird. The RF link was pretty good (I > think there was 40-some-odd points of SNR), and when I used them in > regular AP/bridge mode, or basic WDS, I actually got better performance > than when I enabled polling and Nstreme and all the other Mikrotik > proprietary magic checkboxes. > > The throughput was pretty comparable, but when the link was even lightly > loaded, pings went bananas. Instead of being consistent, some would be > 3ms, some would be 100ms. I figured that was because my little ping > packets were being bundled up with other packets, then transmitted when > it was most efficient for the radio, as opposed to being sent on-demand. > > First, is that pretty close to accurate? Second, in the real world, when > you're trying to do something like VOIP or gaming that's sensitive to > latency, how noticeable is it? > > David Smith > MVN.net > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
