Ad-hoc networking - automatically selecting the best channel

2011-12-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
My understanding is the Sugar's ad-hoc automatically defaults to channel 1. Would it be possible for the client (XO or otherwise) to automatically pick the best channel (1, 6 or 11) based on prevailing interference levels? Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia ___

Re: Ad-hoc networking - automatically selecting the best channel

2011-12-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > My understanding is the Sugar's ad-hoc automatically defaults to > channel 1. Would it be possible for the client (XO or otherwise) to > automatically pick the best channel (1, 6 or 11) based on prevailing > interference levels? For the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Ad-hoc networking - automatically selecting the best channel

2011-12-01 Thread James Cameron
How would you propose measuring interference levels, and how long would this measurement be allowed to take? The measurement would delay the setup of the ad-hoc network on the laptop. The measurement would require the participation of another node in the ad-hoc network. If another node is not av