Re: IP characteristics for 3G and WiFi links

[Matthew Kaufman <matthew () matthew at>]

 On 8/26/2010 3:26 AM, Daniel Migault wrote:
> Currently we are considering the following values. Packet Lost Rate for L2
> seems 7% for Wifi and 5% for 3G. We are wondering how L3 is affected?
WiFi (802.11) uses ARQ to emulate a layer 2 network that has much much 
lower loss than this (otherwise TCP really wouldn't work over it). I 
suspect 3G is similar. So both these numbers are highly suspect.

Matthew Kaufman