What if you ping the wireless AP from one of the devices on the wireless side?


On 3 September 2013 20:14, Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net> wrote:
Noah O'Donoghue <noah.odonoghue@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it possible the devices you are pinging are sleeping using wireless
> power management?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Multimedia_Extensions
>
> This will cause devices to deliberately turn off the radio and ask the AP
> to queue packets until they poll.

The Android phone might be doing so. I don't think the laptop has it enabled,
however. It reports large numbers of excessive retransmissions.

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