Re: WaveLAN application

David E. Wach (david@clipper.net)
Mon, 28 Sep 1998 16:21:49 -0700 (PDT)


On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Dave Cinege wrote:

> David E. Wach wrote:
>
> > For comparison, you might want to also look at BreezeCOM:
> >
> > http://www.breezecom.com/
>
> I was just about ready to buy some of these. I dawned on me to ask and I found
> out..
>
> > Check out their "Wireless LAN Products". They are completely transparent
> > to the operating system - just plug them into an ethernet card.
>
> ..they are a buffered device, providing latency of 100ms+.
> Products like the Wavelan and Aironet are typically <8ms
> depending on distance, giving true T1/E1 performance.
>
>

Uh, check your source... this is across a breezecom link (about 4 miles,
one of our short links):

PING bogus.name.tld (192.168.1.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=9.289 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=9.320 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=9.325 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=9.597 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=9.408 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=9.565 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=9.868 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=11.067 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=11.545 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=64 time=9.277 ms

--- firewall.clipper.net ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 9.277/9.826/11.545/0.767 ms

(names and ip's changed to protect the innocent ;)

Sorry about the wacky times, this was a freeBSD box.

-d

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