Back in 2001 I was working on an 802.11a implementation, and the standard made a huge deal of supporting guaranteed quality of service. I don’t think any of these features ended up being used by most consumer-grade base stations or subscriber stations, hence the spikes of latency and marginal streaming properties.
I don’t see how you can guarantee quality of service in a noisy shared medium? Sometimes someone else will be transmitting, or running a microwave, and it will be briefly unusable, no?
Nothing can be done about external interference like microwaves, but the base station can allocate time slots where lower priority traffic is not allowed to be sent.
Makes sense; mostly I was confused by your use of “guarantee”.
I’m curious how much of a difference this makes: if my base station were optimally allocating slots to prioritize voice calls how much of the way to “as good as wired ethernet” does that get me? Is most of the problem interference (I count 20 SSID in my “choose network” dropdown right now) or prioritization?
Back in 2001 I was working on an 802.11a implementation, and the standard made a huge deal of supporting guaranteed quality of service. I don’t think any of these features ended up being used by most consumer-grade base stations or subscriber stations, hence the spikes of latency and marginal streaming properties.
I don’t see how you can guarantee quality of service in a noisy shared medium? Sometimes someone else will be transmitting, or running a microwave, and it will be briefly unusable, no?
Nothing can be done about external interference like microwaves, but the base station can allocate time slots where lower priority traffic is not allowed to be sent.
Makes sense; mostly I was confused by your use of “guarantee”.
I’m curious how much of a difference this makes: if my base station were optimally allocating slots to prioritize voice calls how much of the way to “as good as wired ethernet” does that get me? Is most of the problem interference (I count 20 SSID in my “choose network” dropdown right now) or prioritization?