[Server-devel] Mesh connectivity from regular WiFi gear

[Martin Langhoff]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 4:10 PM, John Watlington <wad at laptop.org> wrote:
>  Theoretically, that could be done.   Practically, it will never happen
>  as the 5m USB cable limitation means that AA have to be near
>  the server.

Definitely -- unless the AA is on a simple powered usb connector, not
attached to the server, and switches to repeater mode...

> > Am I understanding your comment right?
>
>  No.  If it gets repeated, it is mesh traffic.

Here it's clear I need to buy and read that O'Reilly book on 802.11
-;-) - I thought mesh traffic was slighly different protocol-wise.

cheers,


m
-- 
 martin.langhoff at gmail.com
 martin at laptop.org -- School Server Architect
 - ask interesting questions
 - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first
 - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff