3 Sep
2013
3 Sep
'13
10:14 a.m.
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.