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From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@...>
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Subject: Re: Question about ral max speed?
Date: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 - 5:31 pm

The maximum real world speed I see on my .11g WLAN--Linksys WAP54G

access points, OpenBSD clients with ral(4) and iwi(4)--is about 1.8

Mbyte/s for scp(1) over an IPsec ESP tunnel.


Don't forget that the 54 Mbit/s figure is the raw radio speed and

we are dealing with a shared medium, which means data exchanges are

half-duplex, and there's already a hidden send/acknowledge ping-pong

protocol running at the MAC layer.


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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de
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