Hello,
I'm troubleshooting wireless issues related to choppy connections and latency. I performed a packet capture for ~20 minutes while also in a web conference. Afterward I reviewed the capture and found about 6% of the traffic to be netbios broadcasts. Some clients send 8 broadcasts in less than a second for the same netbios name.
My question is a rather newbish one -- would this amount of broadcast traffic impact user experience while on wifi? All clients see these broadcasts, have to inspect/drop them, and the AP's also have to forward them outbound instead of processing others packets.
Retransmissions and duplicate acks are present as well, but they amount to less than 1.4% the total traffic captured.