[time-nuts] wifi with time sync

[Bob Camp]

Hi

> On Jan 14, 2017, at 12:44 PM, jimlux <jimlux at earthlink.net> wrote:
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> On 1/14/17 8:35 AM, Bob Camp wrote:
>> Hi
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>> I also believe that ping data is one way to come up with an upper bound on
>> just how awful WiFi timing can be.  If others have a similar single shot measure
>> of WiFi round trip that can be run on a wide range of devices, I’d certainly be just
>> as interested in that.
>> 
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> does software like netstumbler and such have lower level diagnostic measurements?
> 
> There's a variety of apps for my phones that provide some info on WiFi networks, but I think it's all sort of in the "received signal strength" kind of level.  I've not seen anything for timing.  But that's not to say that it doesn't exist.

Before this all headed off into the weeds, it *was* a topic looking for more info on WiFi based timing enhancements. We still do not seem to have any real input on that side of it. 
Hopefully somebody will pipe in at some point with real info on what the WiFI chipset guys are trying to do. At some point I would think it’s got to be made public ….

Bob

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> I seem to recall some folks fooling with various timing parameters that can be set into 802.11 chipsets from 10 years ago.  Today's interfaces? I don't know.  The little interfaces that you put on a Arduino and such expose a serial port kind of interface with a AT command set.  I think they bury most all of the stuff we'd want to know about.
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