[Sugar-devel] Faster Multicast [was Re: WatchMe-1, a VNC activity]
Martin Langhoff
martin.langhoff at gmail.com
Wed Aug 12 12:54:16 EDT 2009
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Benjamin M.
Schwartz<bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
> I don't know how to test this, but I think there's a chance it could be a
> big win. Of course, in situations where the mDNS presence information
> itself is overloading the network, there's not much we can do.
Get your hands on airtime.py -- and let's make sure everyone
understands that in wireless networks
what really matters is _airtime_. Multicast frames are sent in the slowest
modulation available, and it consumes a ton of airtime. It doesn't take
much to swamp the RF.
cheers,
m
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