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The Natural Philosopher <
tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 27/11/2024 10:50, Michael Schwingen wrote:
>> On 2024-11-25, druck <
news@druck.org.uk> wrote:
>>> If both interfaces are talking to the same Access point on the same
>>> frequency, it`s going to be worse as WiFi can only talk to one thing at
>>> a time, and the two interfaces will compete for bandwidth.
>>
>> It`s not different from having two completely separate clients connected to
>> the same AP. Unless the channel is fully saturated, the available bandwith
>> will be shared between the clients.
>>
>> cu
>> Michael
>
> It reminds me of a really strange situation we encountered in the early
> days of NT and TCP/IP
>
> The customer complained of 50% packet loss.
>
> EXACTLY 50% packet loss.
>
> It turned out their NT server was bridging tow networks and had two
> Ethernet cards. And two different IP addresses.
> Nothing wrong with that.
>
Hmm, that`s a close parallel to my situation. Each wifi interface
has its own IP address. However, I`m losing much more than half
my traffic, and not repeatably. Sometimes almost none is lost,
other times everything, seemingly but not predictably depending
on load.
Thanks for writing,
bob prohaska
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