[LAD] 802.11n sound card

[Patrick Shirkey]

On 12/23/2009 09:40 AM, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:
> Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>    
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> I had a thought that maybe the network sound card should not be using
>> ethernet but instead wireless 802.11n.
>>
>> The ralink rt2870 chipset is well supported at full 300Mb/s on Linux and
>> has open source drivers.
>>
>> I think this would open up a lot of opportunities with a wireless sound
>> card.
>>
>> I'm not sure how many are on the market right now but I haven't heard of
>> any yet so there is a big opportunity there to fill a gap.
>>      
> low latency audio over wireless is fundamentally impossible.
>
> it's a shared medium, pretty much like thicknet or any other hub or bus
> network. if two endpoints ever send at the same time (and they will),
> the packets will clash and trigger resends after a non-deterministic
> delay (so as to avoid endless re-clashing if two endpoints happen to be
> "in sync").
>
> the only thing that would work over wireless is heavily-buffered media
> center stuff for consumers, because nobody cares if there's half a
> second delay between your pressing play and the start of the movie.
>    

So there's absolutely no way that a keyboard, pc, mixer, speaker set 
transferring data over 802.11n could be made to work?

For example in a home studio setting...







Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd