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Sluggish WiFi Connections Hurt Everyone

Posted by timothy on from the salt-well-the-sluggish-users dept.

MindNumbingOblivion writes "Wireless technology has revolutionized access to local area networks when one can't always be close to an ethernet jack. But a recent research paper from the French Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique tells how one slow user accessing a hot point can hurt the whole group. Apparently the very nature of CSMA/CD guarantees such anomalies. Here's the story, and here's the release from CNRS (in French)."

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  1. Easy enough to solve this problem by curtlewis · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just install switches instead of hubs. Kiss CSMA/CD collision issues goodbye with a dedicated switch port for every system/device.

    In days past, it was cost prohibitive to do this, but with cheap switches these days, why not? I run a switched net at home, not that I really need to, but if I happen to be doing a 2 gig file copy from one box to another, at least I can surf the net without any slowdowns.