Does this rely on some unpublished feature of the current Atheros chipset which could disappear in the next evolution making the project obsolete and the effort wasted?
Is there a URL for the project? Greg On Dec 1, 2009, at 12:56 AM, MDK wrote: > 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" <jay...@spectrasurf.com> > Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 8:51 PM > To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> > 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 <rea...@muddyfrogwater.us> 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" <jay...@spectrasurf.com> >>> Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 8:25 PM >>> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> >>> 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 <rea...@muddyfrogwater.us> 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" <t...@ida.net> >>>>> Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 7:36 PM >>>>> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> >>>>> 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. 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