On Aug 24, 2010, at 7:32 PM, Reuben K. Caron wrote:
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> On Aug 24, 2010, at 1:29 PM, L. Aaron Kaplan wrote:
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>> 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
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On Aug 24, 2010, at 7:20 PM, Richard A. Smith wrote:
> On 08/24/2010 01:01 PM, L. Aaron Kaplan wrote:
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>> 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.
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> Let
On Aug 24, 2010, at 7:11 PM, Reuben K. Caron wrote:
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> On Aug 24, 2010, at 11:24 AM, Richard A. Smith wrote:
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>> The largest of our mesh problems did not have to do with scalability on
>> sheer number of nodes but rather scalability in density. Is there any
>> information available on how
(...)
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>> BTW Richard, as far as I remember the problems with 802.11s seemed to be:
>> 1) the standard is not a standard and it was intentionally crippled
>> 2) the drivers were very b0rked and broken (and Marvel did a terrible job
>> with the driver software)
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>> Scalability to less t
multipath effects.
When you have many many laptops in one room and everybody "screams"/sends very
loud then you have lots of "echos" (multipath fading) bouncing off the walls
etc. 802.11n thrives off these multipath effects.
As I said - first solve layer 1 & 2 issues and t
On Aug 24, 2010, at 5:24 PM, Richard A. Smith wrote:
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> On 08/24/2010 10:13 AM, Reuben K. Caron wrote:
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> > Consider the benefits of using open source software versus our closed
> > source firmware and partnering with communities like Freifunk whose
> > network is ~ 800 node, guifi.net is alm
On Aug 24, 2010, at 5:24 PM, Richard A. Smith wrote:
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> On 08/24/2010 10:13 AM, Reuben K. Caron wrote:
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> > Consider the benefits of using open source software versus our closed
> > source firmware and partnering with communities like Freifunk whose
> > network is ~ 800 node, guifi.net is alm
