With the low cost of Ubnt gear, why not run real relays? The area is small enough to not need a unreasonable amount of relays.
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Fred Goldstein <fgoldst...@ionary.com> wrote: > At 9/13/2010 07:02 PM, you wrote: > >>900 won't do 10 megs. > > The new Ubiquiti M-series Airmax 900 MHz radios should do it. MCS10 > in a 5 MHz quarter-channel is around 10 Mbps. A lower-loss path > could allow MCS11 or MCS12. While you can't synchronize sectors, > they look like they will outperform Canopy at a fraction of the > price. Maybe they'll even ship this year. ;-) > > As to mesh, MT has HWMP+ as a layer 2 meshing protocol. It looks > promising, though there has apparently been very little use of it in > this hemisphere. But them I'm planning to do everything at layer 2, > trying to build a switched network if I can (vs. > bridged). BATMAN-Adv does a layer 2 mesh too, your basic open source > code. I don't know anyone using that one either. This type of > meshing is basically like routing, just operating below IP so it > treats IP (or other protocols, hint hint) as payload and doesn't try > to deal with IP addresses. > > -- > Fred Goldstein k1io fgoldstein "at" ionary.com > ionary Consulting http://www.ionary.com/ > +1 617 795 2701 > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/
