Ian Stirling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So you missed the earlier comment from someone who has problems with > wifi working reliably due to overloading?
It would have been hard for me to miss it since I was the one that made it. ;-) > Consider that if current wifi went through obstructions, and had a 4 > fold range improvement that you get 16 times the interfering stations. Actually, I'm a greedy little b-stard. I want N-times increased coverage and well over N-times as much spectrum. The whole cellular pricing structure hinges on folks not having any alternatives. There is *lots* of spectrum and the public is shoehorned into a few small ~100Mhz bands. > You cannot expect performance similar to managed networks on unmanaged > networks. There is nothing magical about the cell-tower firmware that free/open access point code couldn't also do. You want power control, WIFI could do that if needed. You want hand-off to other frequencies, open sourced code could do that too. > However, it only takes two users streaming files between themselves to > kill connectivity for everyone else. There is nothing preventing fair-share routing/filtering. This is actually a common filter that both Linux and BSD kernels have available in their IP filtering subsystems. In fact, there is a lot of research on various different "fairness" algorithms. This is one of the things that open-source will almost certainly do better since there are tons of competing ideas and tons of research papers. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ IPv6 on Fedora 7 http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/fedora/ipv6-tunnel.html _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community