I don't see any clients go without data traffic of some kind over the course of a single minute, much less 10.
---------- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Yunker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'WISPA General List'" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 1:09 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] User check program >I suppose that it would be possible to derive settings from a web server, > but I was imagining that if your customer was using this tool, they would > be > experiencing a connectivity issue. If they can't connect to the internet, > there is a fairly good chance that they can't reach your web server > either. > Thus, the need to keep at least the default settings in a local file of > some > sort. > > > > It sounds like at least some of you would like to see this tool be more > versatile and be more of a general monitoring tool that can run in > background all of the time. If it runs in background and constantly tests > the network, I am concerned with the impact that such testing would have > on > wireless network performance. For instance, in a Waverider network the > dynamic polling determines the percentage of time to allocate to each > radio > based on the frequency with which that client "talks" to the network. If > every radio on the network is sending ping requests every so many minutes, > the AP cannot ignore ANY of the radios and thus the dynamic polling > mechanism fails to work properly. Is there any sort of workaround to > this? > Are radios able to ignore small packets when formulating dynamic polling > allocation? > > > > - Larry > > > > _____ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Jason > Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 1:51 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] User check program > > > > Could the settings be stored in a file on a web server, and an ini file > (or > compiled in file) just point to the file on the web server? That way, if > your network changes and you want to "re-point" everyone to different > ip's, > you just change the one file on your web server, not hundreds of ini files > across your service area. The logo on the program could just be a pic on > the web server too. So, even your company logo could be changed en mass. > > ~Feature Idea~ > Also, something I wanted to work on some day was an icon for the > notification bar (in vb.net this is easy). The icon could use different > colors and the tool tip (or ~GASP~ a pop up!) to let people know of any > service announcements or outages, etc. This notification could be another > file on a web server that it checks every 10 minutes or so. That way, if > something goes down, you don't get 2000 phone calls in a row telling you > so > (as long as the customer can still reach the web server...) > > Jason > > David E. Smith wrote: > > David, there are too many variables, I think, to have a compiled program > with the settings buried into it. We will want a way to modular-ize it. > Or > it could be done both ways, with the option to set it to "compiled" or > "INI". The compiled version WOULD make for an easier download and use, > yes. > > > > Either all the variables go into an .ini file, or they all go into one > file in the source code. You could even split the difference, and have > default settings compiled in, that are overridden by the presence of a > valid .ini. > > David Smith > MVN.net > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > --- AV & Spam Filtering by M+Guardian - Risk Free Email (TM) --- > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
