run(4) in AP mode and battery consumption of mobile devices

[Damjan Marion]

On Mar 1, 2012, at 5:25 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> What were you using as an access point?

Cisco 1100 and Linksys WRT350Nv2/OpenWRT, much longer battery life on both...

> 
> It could be a power saving management issue with freebsd net80211, but
> it's also quite likely that one of the other power saving methods
> (ps-poll, uapsd) is supported by your AP but not FreeBSD net80211.
> 
> I'd love to see pspoll/uapsd support in FreeBSD..
> 

Anybody else have some experience with for example iPhone and FreeBSD AP?
My battery discharge time is around 10 hours.

BTW My performance is similar to the following post:

http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=7562&page=11 (search for iPhone)

Thanks,

Damjan