Ad-hoc networking - automatically selecting the best channel

[Martin Langhoff]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan
<sridhar at laptop.org.au> wrote:
> My understanding is the Sugar's ad-hoc automatically defaults to
> channel 1. Would it be possible for the client (XO or otherwise) to
> automatically pick the best channel (1, 6 or 11) based on prevailing
> interference levels?

For the reasons James pointed out, it's not easily solvable for the
"find the best thing to do, quickly".

Ad hoc works well for very small groups (<6) -- and in that case you
want them all to be in the same channel... to be able to communicate!
:-) It's for the "under a tree" scenario, no access points around.

If there is a lot of interference, it means there are lots of APs.
Just make one AP available to the XOs ;-)



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