Wed Jun 20, 2007 8:15 pm
Normis, in your MT tests of 802.11n, what max PPS were you able to achieve? In MT's opinion, what is the max PPS of the 802.11n card?
It is quite improtant to know this, as our main interest in 802.11n is not mainly the NLOS. What we need is to increase the PPS capabilities of our Towers in order to be able to provide quality VOIP and video over IP services. We sell our services as fixed lines so NLOS is not an issue here. But, at least with fixed links, the QoS should be high.
Also, we intend to use 802.11n for higher speed backbone connectivity where packets from all towers are pooled, and high PPS capability is vital. Have seen many inputs in thios forum regarding 128kPPS being achieved on wireless links running on PC based systems. Yet again, I see contrdictions stating that the practical PPS capabilities of Atheros based cards is linited to 8000. Little bit confusing at this stage, and 8000 is way too low for numerous realtime VOIP Connections. Our VOIP manufacturers have requested a backbone of at least 30k PPS. Dunno if a Mikrotik solution is up to the task. But 8000 PPS surely is not.