[CWN-Summit] Students tout WiFi co-ops as alternative to municipal WiFi

[David Young]

On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 10:07:22AM +0100, Aaron Kaplan wrote:
> 
> >
> >>*) These atheros chips offloads the radio computation to the CPU.
> >>Many packets? -> lots of CPU load -> packetloss
> >
> >I can tell you quite confidently that that is not true.  Silicon in  
> >the
> >Atheros chip does the radio computation.
> >
> >
> 
> different atheros chips do it in HW. This one offloads the  
> computation to the CPU (given that they are the same design as FON).

By "radio computation," I take that you mean the modulation/demodulation,
and that is definitely not happening on the host CPU.  Perhaps you mean
a different computation than I think.

The Atheros design does not inherently demand that the host CPU work
very hard.

Dave

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