Thread: WiFi performace
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Serge is offline Serge
2008-08-14 , 13:43
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#10
Originally Posted by XTC View Post
I think it's nothing unusuall at all.
Why? In mobile device when You connect subparts it's normal that You don't have full-speed on all channels (SPI for example) - That's not a way of designing battery operated devices. Other factors counts more than that.
WLAN chip sleeps most of the time anyway and SPI bus is not always clocked as far as I know. I'm not quite sure that SPI speed affects power consumption much. Quite the opposite may be also true - the faster you download a file over WLAN, the faster WLAN chip can go to sleep and stop consuming energy.

Finally - it's not a network switch where it's network performance defines it's usefulness.
Copying data from/to a device fast is a nice feature. Also network performance may be important for video streaming for those who care about it.

You tweak connections to fit devices needs and at this point is browsing the web, listening to streamed music, receiveing an e-mail - so that's what device is design for.
Yes, but finding more uses for the device is always a good thing. Availability of sources (for the stuff that is open) helps a lot and encourages these improvements.
 

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