On Aug 24, 2010, at 7:20 PM, Richard A. Smith wrote: > 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. >
Ah ok. As said - I was not very much in touch with the current operations and decisions at OLPC. Sorry about that. > Whats not there in 1.5 is "OLPC-original-mesh-routing-in-the-wlan-firmware". > One can still accomplish "mesh" via thin firmware. > ok > 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. > perfect :) > 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. > makes sense. > Like you said. There are AP's that will do all the fancy Tx power management > without any mesh-routing. > sure. But those you have to pay extra for ;-) But they work... agreed. Hm.... well, you at least got me thinking how we can make a small dense indoor mesh working without APs.... interesting challenge. Like think about replacing those smart APs by a distributed version. Interesting... a.
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