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From your quote: > With a good driver scanning takes only a few seconds A few seconds of not transmitting or receiving packets. This is in line with people ha
by vel0city 2y ago
From your quote:
> With a good driver scanning takes only a few seconds
A few seconds of not transmitting or receiving packets. This is in line with people having sudden several hundred millisecond ping spikes.
A few seconds of no real traffic is absolutely noticeable impact for constant, latency sensitive traffic.
- dlenski 2y ago> From your quote: > > With a good driver scanning takes only a few seconds You omitted the immediately following text: "*and the driver breaks the scan into chunks*, returning to the associated access point’s channel periodically to handle pending traffic." A good driver will return to the AP's channel _during the scan_ so that there is never more than (say) 100 ms of latency even while the scan is ongoing.