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Date:      Thu, 1 Mar 2012 18:25:48 +0100
From:      Damjan Marion <damjan.marion@gmail.com>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: run(4) in AP mode and battery consumption of mobile devices
Message-ID:  <EFF06C0C-7D0D-42DB-94DF-7638EA32598B@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAJ-Vmonn5RVG_0De8HSOXHTTLGfKRVb2EwKa-hXTr3j8kcws4Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mar 1, 2012, at 5:25 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> What were you using as an access point?

Cisco 1100 and Linksys WRT350Nv2/OpenWRT, much longer battery life on both...

> 
> It could be a power saving management issue with freebsd net80211, but
> it's also quite likely that one of the other power saving methods
> (ps-poll, uapsd) is supported by your AP but not FreeBSD net80211.
> 
> I'd love to see pspoll/uapsd support in FreeBSD..
> 

Anybody else have some experience with for example iPhone and FreeBSD AP?
My battery discharge time is around 10 hours.

BTW My performance is similar to the following post:

http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=7562&page=11 (search for iPhone)

Thanks,

Damjan





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