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From: "William Herrin" <bill@herrin.us>
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
You're saying that *receiving* multicast streams over WLAN works poorly?
I don't have any experience with it, but here's what Google told me:
http://www.wireless-nets.com/resources/tutorials/802.11_multicasting.html
"When any single wireless client associated with an access point has 802.11 power-save mode enabled, the access point buffers all multicast frames and sends them only after the next DTIM (Delivery Traffic Indication Message) beacon, which may be every one, two, or three beacons (referred to as the “DTIM interval”). [...] default 100 millisecond beacon interval"
Thanks for doing my googling for me, Bill. :-) I'll do some more; I would sort've expect that might be something the firmware in enterprise-class APs would handle better (where by better, I mean "not permitting one client to manhandle the entire network" :-). 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