Re: Active Antennas...

2009-03-17 Thread Sameer Verma
single sentence or two should suffice for most of the 8 questions here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program/Project_proposal_form Thanks Sameer. What's the status on the moratorium on active antennas? Can we request these for small deployments (40) ? Sameer

Re: Active Antennas...

2009-03-17 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: What's the status on the moratorium on active antennas? Can we request these for small deployments (40) ? it's ok to request them

Re: Active Antennas...

2009-03-17 Thread John Watlington
, at 11:46 AM, Sameer Verma wrote: On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: What's the status on the moratorium on active antennas? Can we request these for small deployments (40

Re: Active Antennas...

2009-03-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:56 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: Martin was referring to the RF spectrum usage, which is higher for a given payload using the mesh than when using a conventional AP. Which in practice means: given a few clients, the bandwidth sucks horribly and everything

Re: Active Antennas...

2009-03-17 Thread Hal Murray
Martin was referring to the RF spectrum usage, which is higher for a given payload using the mesh than when using a conventional AP. Why? Why is XO to XO traffic any different from XO to AP? Is there a good web page that explains this area? -- These are my opinions, not necessarily my

Re: Active Antennas...

2009-03-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Hal Murray hmur...@megapathdsl.net wrote: Martin was referring to the RF spectrum usage, which is higher for a given payload using the mesh than when using a conventional AP. Why?  Why is XO to XO traffic any different from XO to AP? search the archives --

Re: Active Antennas...

2009-03-17 Thread John Watlington
Because, unlike traffic to/from an AP, XO/XO traffic uses broadcast to perform route discovery before sending the payload. This broadcast is repeated by all XOs that hear it... Routes are discarded after 5 - 10 seconds, so route discovery happens frequently. I didn't design it, I'm just

Re: Active Antennas...

2009-03-16 Thread Ed McNierney
wrote: What's the status on the moratorium on active antennas? Can we request these for small deployments (40) ? it's ok to request them for development testing, but for deployments... hmmm Depending on kernel firmware versions, they are reliable or unreliable. It's hit and miss. And RF

Re: Active Antennas...

2009-03-16 Thread Sameer Verma
: What's the status on the moratorium on active antennas? Can we request these for small deployments (40) ? it's ok to request them for development testing, but for deployments... hmmm Depending on kernel firmware versions, they are reliable or unreliable. It's hit and miss. And RF usage

Active Antennas...

2009-03-15 Thread Sameer Verma
What's the status on the moratorium on active antennas? Can we request these for small deployments (40) ? Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu

Re: Active Antennas...

2009-03-15 Thread Holt
here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program/Project_proposal_form Thanks Sameer. What's the status on the moratorium on active antennas? Can we request these for small deployments (40) ? Sameer ___ Devel mailing list Devel

Re: Active Antennas...

2009-03-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: What's the status on the moratorium on active antennas? Can we request these for small deployments (40) ? it's ok to request them for development testing, but for deployments... hmmm Depending on kernel firmware versions