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There are lots of probes and probe responses in addition to the beacons. If you have CTS/RTS enabled (most don't) then you have those frames as well. Each pack
by zwieback 18y ago
There are lots of probes and probe responses in addition to the beacons. If you have CTS/RTS enabled (most don't) then you have those frames as well.
Each packet has to be ACKed by the receiver so there's lots of those.
Management frames are usually short, though.
- muon 18y agoAgreed, the probe requests and probe responses do not hog the medium. As noted most of us do not enable RTS/CTS, it would be clear if the researches pointed out the exact conditions under which they performed their tests. With out which the statement has no weight.