[Server-devel] Mesh connectivity from regular WiFi gear

[John Watlington]

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...?

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Collab_Network_School_Wifi_Tests

Tests 0410B, C were pretty good.
Tests 0410A (too many laptops) and 0331x (bad AP) weren't
so good.

> cheers,
>
>
>
> martin
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