Making WiFi fast
Making WiFi fast
Posted Nov 10, 2016 23:58 UTC (Thu) by tohojo (subscriber, #86756)In reply to: Making WiFi fast by Otus
Parent article: Making WiFi fast
Not explicitly. However, while we are theoretically doing more work per packet, we have not seen anything that even registers on the CPU usage monitor. Crypto is still offloaded on most hardware, and most of the power save features of WiFi work by letting idle stations sleep for a while to conserve power. That is unchanged; these changes only really kick in when a device is busy.
