23 Dec
2009
23 Dec
'09
4:14 a.m.
On 12/23/2009 09:40 AM, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:
Patrick Shirkey wrote:
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
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.