Active Antennas...

Ed McNierney ed at laptop.org
Mon Mar 16 09:23:46 EDT 2009


Right - the Contributors' Program is not intended to provide equipment  
for pilots or small deployments.

Sameer, which small deployments are you talking about?

	- Ed


On Mar 16, 2009, at 12:01 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
>> What's the status on the moratorium on active antennas? Can we  
>> request
>> these for small deployments (<40) ?
>
> it's ok to request them for development & testing, but for  
> deployments... hmmm
>
> Depending on kernel & firmware versions, they are reliable or
> unreliable. It's hit and miss. And RF usage is still high I think, so
> I'm not sure we can cope with 40 users in a stable, usable shape.
>
> For anything resembling field usage, get a cheap AP instead and live  
> longer.
>
> cheers,
>
>
>
> m
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