Re: Disabling ACKs with ath5k

[Dennis Borgmann <dennis.borgmann@googlemail.com>]

Hello Sam,
hello Nick,

thank you for your hints. Multicasting was an option already before.
With your expert opinion I am now confident, that this idea wasn't that bad.

Anyway, i will have a look at the hints given by Nick.

Thank you for your thoughts. It will help me.

Best regards from Germany,
Dennis

Sam Leffler schrieb:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Dennis Borgmann <
> dennis.borgmann@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hello John,
>>
>> the goal would be to have a transmission as fast as possible while
>> ignoring, if a packet reached its destination or not. I'd like to test
>> wireless performance regarding transmission time in a dedicated
>> environment. As far as I can see, backoff might already push the
>> transmission times up quite a lot and if I'd even add the time of -
>> worst case - 10 retransmissions, the transmission time of one packet
>> will grow even more.
>>
>> It would be second-rank, if the packet reaches its destination. Loss of
>> some packets is not a problem in my testbed.
>>
>> So I'd like to disable usage of ACKs in order to be off with the only
>> problem - backoff. Disabling this would of course be nice, but I fear,
>> that's far more work that just disabling ACKs.
>>
>>     
>
> Send multicast frames.
>
> -Sam
>
>