The afflicted Linux devices will be spoiling the commons, even if they can still get their own data sent without stalling. Instead of combining frames for more

The afflicted Linux devices will be spoiling the commons, even if they can still get their own data sent without stalling. Instead of combining frames for more efficient use of the available wireless channel they will be sending an individual frame per packet and degrading the total useful capacity of the channel. Wikipedia asserts in its WiFi frame aggregation article that the overhead of a packet can be greater than the actual data of the packet on high speed WiFi.