#2750 HIGH Trial-3: wireless device constantly transmitting beacons

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#2750: wireless device constantly transmitting beacons
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  Reporter:  dwmw2     |       Owner:  marcelo
      Type:  defect    |      Status:  new    
  Priority:  high      |   Milestone:  Trial-3
 Component:  wireless  |     Version:         
Resolution:            |    Keywords:         
  Verified:  0         |  
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Comment(by jg):

 One more thought: turning it off entirely, or allowing the driver to set a
 rate in software, is in order.

 Say we have a school of 300 machines; (we already have one of these).
 Even at a rate of .5hz you get 150 pps.  That's quite a bit of load...

 At 10 hz, 100 machines has been generating 1000pps; we have something like
 that number of machines in our environment.  So it wouldn't surprise me if
 the power problems may not be mostly just the signal processing of this
 beacon.

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Ticket URL: <https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/2750#comment:9>
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