From: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
To: Joerg Pommnitz <pommnitz@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: AW: Configuring the multicast data rate with iw/nl80211
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:04:48 +0200
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On Friday 24 June 2011 14:34:55 Joerg Pommnitz wrote:
> >As an alternative, It's worth a try to look into multicast-to-unicast proxies
> >such as http://sourceforge.net/projects/udpxy/ .
> 
> But then you duplicate the multicast traffic for every STA, no?
Not every STA, only those which subscribed to udpxy at the time.

But there's more, I found it very difficult to "fine-tune" the multicast
setup properly, since there's no automatic feedback for
multicast link quality. Either the rate I picked was too low, or the
signal was too weak, in both cases the video stream as pretty
pretty poor at best.

So I went with the proxy, which as it turns out is a much better
option once you go for 11n. However, the decision is truly yours :D