Backhauls? Greg
On Sep 13, 2010, at 9:16 PM, Fred Goldstein wrote: > At 9/13/2010 09:23 PM, you wrote: >> 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. > > What do you mean by real relays? A mesh or routed network or > whatever you want to call it is a set of relays. I may be missing > out on what you mean by the term, though; I use it generically. > >> 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/
