[145477] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: nanog53 network status
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Noah Weis)
Mon Oct 10 13:55:54 2011
In-Reply-To: <4E9320B7.7080407@foobar.org>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:54:58 -0400
From: Noah Weis <nweis@verilan.com>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
Cc: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Nick, we actually do limit the client power settings, by default, for the
very reasons you mention.
Noah
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
> On 10/10/2011 16:01, Anton Kapela wrote:
> > Please relay any outstanding issues my way--I'll route to Verilan,
> > which is handling the network and wireless support for the meeting.
>
> If Verilan has the ability to limit client power settings, these should
> also be reduced as far as possible. Some drivers ignore these hints,
> because the software driver authors know that MOAR POWER means better
> connectivity, right?. Verilan may find that completely disabling a tiny
> number of badly-behaved clients can dramatically improve quality of service
> for everyone else.
>
> Nick
>
>
>
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Noah K. Weis
Verilan, Inc.
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