[MLB-WIRELESS] What do people want to do with the wireless co nnection?

[Barry Park]

Bridges are generally used to extend the reach and capacity of a single LAN
system over long distance links. In this type of network, there's a central
access point, or an island of access, connected to another distant access
point via a wireless bridge. Nodes connect to their nearest access point and
use the wireless bridge to leapfrog to other remote parts of the network.

A routed network relies on a cluster of overlapping or interconnected nodes.
There's generally no central access point and users are linked in a
free-flowing daisy chain to each other. If you want something from another
node, the network discovers the best path via all the active nodes available
at that time.

The only reason I have suggested bridging is that nodes appear to be
clustering in isolated patches all over Melbourne (and beyond). Bridging
with access points might be a (temporary) solution to giving more people a
chance to point an antenna at something as well as interconnecting the outer
suburban fringes with the tightly clustered inner city areas. The other
concern is that while the network is in an early developmental stage, users
relying on one neighboring node for their connectivity to the greater
network will suffer at the whim of their closest node's on/off switch.

- Barry

-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Davis-Ryan [mailto:joshdr at optushome.com.au]
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 12:14 PM
To: melbwireless at melbwireless.dyndns.org
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] What do people want to do with the wireless
connection?


feel me in, i dont understand most of that...whats bridged...will u need
like directional annetenas ponting at differnt point of access....im
lost..reply or point me to a web site with lots of facts..

thanks


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