[OLPC Networking] Wireless Recommendations

[Ricardo Carrano]

Hello Rafael,

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
<dirakx at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Ricardo
> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Ricardo Carrano <carrano at laptop.org> wrote:
>>
>> Dear all!
>>
>> So, continuing with our current work on the recommendations for
>> improving scalability and reliability of the XO mesh, I started the
>> following wiki page:
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wireless_Recommendations
>>
>> There is a *lot* of meat to add there, but before going deep into that
>> I would like to ask for:
>>
>> - Comments/suggestions on the page structure;
>> - Check the completness of the list of recommendations;
>> - Suggest a better name (than Wireless Recommendations)
>>
>> Note: I'm sure the page is incomplete with relation to the
>> 802.11s/thin firmware future steps. Michiail, would you please add the
>> respective headings. I know you summarized that recently on a conf
>> call but I was constantly being kicked off due to a crappy skype
>> connection.
>>
>> As soon as we close the first round of discussions in the topics above
>> I'll move on and populate the pages. The idea is of course to move as
>> quickly as possible to the "action" phase.
>>
>> Cheers!
>> Ricardo
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>
> This is a good page. really needed,
>
> Comments: i'd like to see more about how this recommendations can be
> implemented in the field (i.e deployments) .
> and also another kind of recomendations that could be added is for example
> what kind of wireles APs are know to work better with the XO.
> I'm refering maybe to recomendations more focused to practical situations.
>

Thank you for your comments. The objective is to actually implement
the recommendations of the (I) category and to move to clear
recommendations for the items in the (D) category. So, yes, I agree
that the important thing is the action page of each recommendation.

On this page we focused mainly on the changes in software: network
stack, wireless driver and firmware that will be implemented in the
XO. So they are all practical and will reflect in the deployments.
Would be pointless otherwise.

I understand that you are referring to deployment recommendations when
you say practical recommendations. And it seems a good idea to have
such page too.

Since their "public" is different, because the people who will
implement changes in the driver will not install access points in a
school (not typically at least) and since the deployment
recommendations are more focused on the infrastructure, rather than
the XO, I suggest that this would be another page (though I didn't do
a search to verify if such page exists already).

There is a page on the compatibility
[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wireless_Access_Point_Compatibility] that
could probably be a building block off these deployment recommendation
page.

That being said, it could also be the case that this is a category on
the current recommendations page.

In short, I say, let's do it! I would ask the readers of this list for
comments on the better approach to do it!

Cheers!
Ricardo
>
> Are these recomendations on the scope of your page?
>
>
> --
> Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
> One Laptop Per Child
> rafael at laptop.org
>