[Server-devel] Mesh connectivity from regular WiFi gear

[John Watlington]

This has become a big concern again.

If a school is using a mesh, we have a carefully designed system
to ensure that a laptop doesn't go into simple mesh mode, and instead
connects automatically with the school.

If a school is using traditional WiFi, there is no such guarantee.
This is possibly bad, as kids that aren't associated can interfere with
those that are.

Mesh portal mode was disabled for exactly this reason...

wad


On Apr 16, 2008, at 5:35 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Michail Bletsas  
> <mbletsas at laptop.org> wrote:
>>  XO's can extend the reach of APs by being mesh portals themselves.
>>  That has been the original plan from day 1.
>
> Yes - but while I was @ 1CC I heard discussions about this having been
> disabled in a relatively recent build (~660?) because the "acting as
> mesh portals" feature was causing an error. And the Montevideo team
> mentioned that past builds in the 650s range it had stopped working
> for them.
>
> I might be misremembering here - factual data welcome :-)
>
>>  Since AAs will only repeat mesh frames (in standalone) mode, they  
>> won't
>>  extend the reach of APs directly by themselves.
>
> Ok.
>
>>  John just tested a $45 Access point b.t.w. with 80 XOs.
>
> Fantastic - have we got a wikipage with the resutls of these tests -
> AP model, firmware version and how it behaved...?
>
> cheers,
>
>
>
> martin
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