[vdr] Re: OT: WLAN

[René Bartsch <rene@bartschnet.de>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christian Berger" <einStein@donau.de>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 12:36 PM
Subject: [vdr] Re: OT: WLAN


> Steffen Koch schrieb:
> >
> > On Fri, 10 May 2002 10:19:20 +0200, Emil Naepflein wrote:
> >
> > >> >WLAN is certainly to slow for a time critical stream with 500 KB/s.
You
> > >> >will be happy to reach the 500 KB with normal data transfer. Just
have
> > >> >look at the tests that were published in several magazines.
> > >> I've a tekram WLAN AP and two tekram WLAN PCI-cards. They work fine
and
> > >> I get ftp download from my vdr machine with approx 800 KB/s...
> > >I use Lucent Cards with a ELSA AP and get about 500 KB/s with WEP
> > >enabled.
> > >Are you using WEP?
> > no. I can't. The connection breaks after a few seconds with WEP
> > enabled... Now I use access control via MAC-address...
>
>
> Ever thought about using 2 wireless networks with 2 cards on different
> frequencies. With proper filtering in front of the cards it might work
> quite well. Then we would not only have more rubust transmission, but
> also about twice the bandwidth.
>
> Servus
>   Casandro
>

Linux-kernel supports bonding. That means two or more physical NICs can be
used as one logical NIC with one IP.

Rene