Jerry Richardson wrote: > I believe there is still a market for municipal public wifi. I am > finding the barrier is the cost of the radios at $1k ea minimum for a > true mesh type dual radio system. Anything lower is cost is not true > Mesh. Yes, I could put something together using pieces and parts however > that's a support nightmare waiting to happen. > > If you could have a Mesh Radio designed the way you want, what would it > look like? > > My wish would look something like this: > - Dual radio > - Client access on 802.11b/g (optional 4.9 model for Public Safety) > - Mesh on 802.11a (open-mesh?) with DFS on 5.2/5.4
Yep. For me it would be 802.11n for backbone/mesh and client access on 802.11b/g > - Automatic scan for best channel > - Multi-SSID (up to 16 SSID/VLAN sets) > - BW allocation per SSID > - QoS per VLAN > - Encryption > - Client Isolation > - SNMP v1, v2 DD-WRT or OpenWRT can give you this. > - Ping watchdog Not sure what this is? A script that runs on the router and reboots if it can't ping? > - Push/Pull config The PTP guys did something for this with openwrt.... http://www.stephouse.net/files/openwrtprovisioner/openwrtprovisioner.v0.1.tgz > - NAT/DHCP to clients (running as router) > - 10/100 Ethernet > - Outdoor, ready to hang (not a roll-your-own) > - Browser Configurable > - POE > - Tech support from a manufacturer (not third party support/forums/mail > lists) So it would seem UBNT gear with an OpenWRT load would do most of what you want? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
