[Live-devel] streaming multiple videos with multiple streams

[Karl Dietz]

On 05.06.2014 12:17, Warren Young wrote:
> On 6/5/2014 04:04, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>
>> (In particular, if your network is WiFi, note that multicast generally
>> performs very poorly over WiFi networks.)
>
> Yes, wifi is a problem for all real-time systems.
>
> First, the speeds claimed for wifi are basically marketing BS. A "54
> Mbit/s" wireless network standard will give you 54 Mbit/s only when the
> two radios are sitting right next to each other inside an anechoic RF
> chamber sitting inside a Faraday cage.

I think that was in reference to WiFi transmitting multicast even slower 
then unicast. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_multicast#Wireless_.28802.11.29_considerations
"and the transmit rate is either 1 Mbit/s or 6 Mbit/s, depending on the 
operating band and protection mode."

Regards,
Karl