Hi, my name is Valent and I'm founder of www.otvorenamreza.org which is a partner project with Wlan Slovenia (we are neighbours) and also www.meshpoint.me
We have used Babel for almost a year and it has show to be excellent, recently we had tested it in real worlds situation with on extreme sport event in which over 19,000 people have been online on 4 nodes (each node with two 2.4 ghz radios)... in peak we had over 500 users at the same time! All nodes were wired, we didn't use wireless mesh, only wired mesh so to say in star + hub and spoke topology. I would like to ask this group what kind of setup do you use for wireless mesh and which hardware? We currently have mostly single radio nodes (tplink wr841nd and ubiquiti nanostation Loco m2) in our network and by default all of our nodes also run mesh on same radio but via adhoc interface. In my short experimentation this showed to work quite poorly, even with two nodes separated by only 10 meters on top of two building this mostly failed to work and we had lots of connectivity issues. Once I switched these two nodes to ap and sta modes link was rock solid. We have few nodes that are connected to the network only via wifi adhoc mesh interface but these are only border nodes, and they are not so important if then don't work perfectly. Did anyone experiment with running wireless point to point and point to multipoint backone links with babel? Can you share what kind of bandwidth speeds did you reach? Did you have any issues? Can you share some best practices? I would like to start using wireless mesh for connecting remote MeshPoint nodes (www.meshpoint.me) so we can create bigger coverage are during crisis situations when infrastructure fails and we can come in and create popup infrastructure in matter of minutes. I really hope we can all share our knowledge and help each others. If you have any questions for me fire away :) Cheers, Valent. _______________________________________________ Babel-users mailing list Babel-users@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/babel-users