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From: "Masataka Ohta" <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Jay Ashworth wrote:
You're saying that *receiving* multicast streams over WLAN works poorly?
Multicast/broadcast over congested WLAN works poorly, because there can be no ACK.
That is, multicast/broadcast packets lost by collisions are never sent again.
Well, yes, but that wasn't what Bill was talking about. He was talking about AP's being "nice" to associated clients who are in powersave mode, at the expensive of all the other connected clients, by buffering multicast packets until one or more DTIM frames are sent. We expect live streams to drop a packet here and there; that's what buffering is for... and why television proper still exists. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274