[MLB-WIRELESS] the problem with wireless networks...

[Ryan Abbenhuys]

This is pretty much the defense I've always taken when I'm arguing with
people who are going down the magical wireless mesh path.

Also same reason I'm being a Channel/AP nazi in outer eastern foothills RG.

Maximise bandwidth!!

-- Omni antennas are bad news for everyone else, avoid them. (it's a rare
occasion that you can justify spitting out a 360degree signal)
-- No more than 3 interfaces on separate channels within a few hundred
metres of eachother.
-- Use panel or waveguide antennas with 180degree *or less* beamwidth so
you can control your noise.
-- Divide up coverage amoung several AP's with separate directional links
between them.


>this site is about the best I have seen to explain what the inherent
problems 
>with wireless networks are.  Have a read...
>
>http://www.sown.org.uk/index.php/TheTruthAboutOmnis
>
>
>-- 
>Dr Paul van den Bergen
>Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures
>caia.swin.edu.au
>pvandenbergen at swin.edu.au
>IM:bulwynkl2002
>"And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones 
>to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. 
>They say it is to see how the world was made."
>Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824 
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