On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 17:10 -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > Hi - > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 04:49:40PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > > [...] > > > Does this mean that one needs a school server/bridge in order to talk > > > to two differently-channeled friends ? > > > > Yes. You must spread the XOs between channels to maximize the overall > > system bandwidth [...] > > Is it obvious that this benefit (increased aggregate bandwidth) is > worth the cost (the necessity for a special bridge - possibly > hamstringing an ad-hoc mesh away from the schoolhouse)? How > bandwidth-hungry are common XO activities anyway?
It depends, but packing 50 normal laptops onto a single radio channel _today_ with infrastructure APs doesn't really work well, especially when they all start to talk. We're likely to have that many laptops in a single classroom, and when you get a couple classrooms next each other... Dan _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel