Actually, it's far better than cost-effective. It's flexible, in both hardware and capabilities. Firewall, routing, routing daemons, and other things.
Frankly, I find the physical aspects of the Airmax stuff frustratingly limited. I've grown fond of my immense ability to do creative stuff with Star-OS and a wide array of physical forms - especially since much of my network relies on low power consumption. AirMax, deployed as an AP and clients... seems ok. But that's only a small part of a good network. -------------------------------------------------- From: "Jayson Baker" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 8:51 PM To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WISPA] FreeBSD hackers.... Needed for WISP related product... > Availability is supposedly resolved. We'll see. > > Routing... there is a full SDK. You can do anything you want on those > things. The new ones have 400+MHz proc's, plenty to do some > routing/firewalling. > > I just can't see a home grown solution like you're proposing being > cost-effective. We spent about 2 months on a project just like this, and > started to have some pretty awesome performance and results. > > Then UBNT stuff came out. > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 9:39 PM, MDK <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Given UBNT's record of unavailability of product, and the inability to >> route via the interface, I vastly prefer this to UBNT's products. >> >> Now, mind you, I'm not really putting them down, but this is an excellent >> infrastructure tool... Routing and other capabilities that vastly >> exceed >> some better known... >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> From: "Jayson Baker" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 8:25 PM >> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [WISPA] FreeBSD hackers.... Needed for WISP related >> product... >> >> > Is there really much need for this, given the new AirMax product line? >> > I'm just saying... >> > >> > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 9:19 PM, MDK <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> What would you call a totally proprietary, TDMA based protocol, >> >> without >> >> ACK >> >> or CSMA? >> >> >> >> Doesn't look a whole lot like 802.11x, but if you wish to say it is, >> >> then, >> >> for you it is :) >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> >> From: "Travis Johnson" <[email protected]> >> >> Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 7:36 PM >> >> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> >> >> Subject: Re: [WISPA] FreeBSD hackers.... Needed for WISP related >> >> product... >> >> >> >> > If you are using Atheros based hardware, it's still 802.11... >> >> > regardless >> >> > of what software you put on top of it. >> >> > >> >> > Travis >> >> > Microserv >> >> > >> >> > MDK wrote: >> >> >> If you're a WISP and have interest in using commodity - off the >> >> >> shelf - >> >> >> Atheros based hardware to achieve higher than ethernet speeds over >> >> >> wireless... This is not a tweak of 802.11, it is a completely >> >> >> different >> >> >> mode... >> >> >> >> >> >> There is currently an opportunity to do so, where most of the work >> has >> >> >> been >> >> >> done by various others in the FreeBSd community, but it is not >> >> integrated >> >> >> or >> >> >> packaged as a useful WISP product, and that's what needs to be >> >> >> done. >> >> >> >> >> >> This does not need to result in an open source release, due to the >> >> >> relaxed >> >> >> BSD license. Or, it can. But I'm looking for some people who >> >> >> have >> >> >> experience with freebsd, and have an interest in integrating what >> >> >> could >> >> >> be >> >> >> an awesome performing product using inexpensive commodity hardware. >> >> >> >> >> >> email me at pda at neofast dot net or mark at neofast dot net >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> WISPA Wants You! 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