[Server-devel] Mesh connectivity from regular WiFi gear

[Martin Langhoff]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 3:26 AM, John Watlington <wad at laptop.org> wrote:
>  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.

When at NYC, you mentioned that the NM searches and prefers the
school-mesh-<n> essids of mesh-type signals. And that perhaps we could
make it lock into infrastructure-mode essids of that name with the
same kind of preference. Would this simple fix help sort the problem
out?

Also, do we have wikipage of tested APs?

cheers,



m
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