SV: SV: SV: Increase number of available ip-addresses

Yes and if you compare how popular and widespread it actually is, it makes no sense why more of the frequency band has not been allocated to this purpose, but this is whole other discussion.

A broadcast is far more effective compared to send the same information to every client, as long as they share the same medium, so being able to use broadcasts for something is actually good for the medium... and bad for battery life from a client perspective, it's all a compromise, and it's never really simple.

:-)

- Ulrik

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Fra: Lee Sharp [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sendt: 16. september 2013 17:11
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Emne: Re: SV: SV: [m0n0wall] Increase number of available ip-addresses

On 09/16/2013 04:19 AM, Ulrik Lunddahl wrote:

> My point with this comment was to remind everyone that Wireless
 > Ethernet is nothing close to switches, If you have to compare them  > to anything, they should be seen more like hubs.

Not really.  They do not forward everything, but they do forward all broadcast.  it is kind of a hubbed switch.  The WiFi side is a hub and all communication is shared, but the bridge between the WiFi and wired is switched.  And if you choose "user mode isolation" a lot of the local side hub goes away, but the contention does not.

WiFi is an ugly design, but it is popular. :)

			Lee

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