[Prism54-devel] Bandwidth limitation - where?

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Friday 21 May 2004 12:41, Andriy Korud wrote:
> Hi,
> in my tests I was able to achieve maximum 18Mbit/s in ad-hoc mode and
> 16Mbit/s in master mode in Linux-Windows communication using current CV=
S
> driver. Signal strength and link quality are 100% - according to window=
s
> driver information. So I'm very interested where is bandwidth limitatio=
n -
> driver architecture? Limited chipset specification?

Unlike wired ethernet, even at 54Mbit/s modulation you cannot send
5.4 Mbytes per second over 802.11g. It's a protocol limitation.

> Is it possible (in
> theory) to reach 54Mbit? The same host handle 100Mbit/s via Ethernet
> without any problem, so this is not CPU/kernel limitation. Also interes=
ted
> why bandwidth in infrastructure mode is less then in ad-mode?

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