On 08/24/2010 01:01 PM, L. Aaron Kaplan wrote: > > Well - the issue is IMHO that OLPC always sold the public on the mesh > idea. So it is somewhat of a bummer that the mesh is gone now. >
Let me re-phrase what I said before all the rumors start to fly and I get in trouble. The "idea" of mesh is still alive and well at OLPC. We still very much believe in mesh. Whats not there in 1.5 is "OLPC-original-mesh-routing-in-the-wlan-firmware". One can still accomplish "mesh" via thin firmware. And if you use multiple 1.5's out under a tree with no AP ah-hoc networking still allows them all to communicate just like XO1. Almost nothing has changed except that now we don't melt down the 2.4Ghz RF spectrum when a bunch of them are near each other. Having been once burned by mesh we are taking the "show me it works in a school" stance before jumping back into the mesh-routing game. We need to see definitive numbers not just speculation. Like you said. There are AP's that will do all the fancy Tx power management without any mesh-routing. -- Richard A. Smith <rich...@laptop.org> One Laptop per Child _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel