[MLB-WIRELESS] roaming between 2 AP's?

[Michael Vale]

BeWiFi  http://www.bewifi.org.au

Peter Buncle wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> Are you involved with aistream for your wireless work or something else.
>
> Cheers
>
> Peter
> Melbourne Wireless 
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: melbwireless-bounces at wireless.org.au
> [mailto:melbwireless-bounces at wireless.org.au] On Behalf Of Michael Vale
> Sent: Thursday, 6 November 2008 1:21 PM
> To: Charles Wyble; melbwireless at wireless.org.au
> Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] roaming between 2 AP's?
>
> In my opinion the routing protocols are good, but node to node (omni to
> omni), results in a slow mesh.  Using multiple radios at each node
> linking the nodes together with ptp links makes a substantial
> difference.
>
> I have tried with WRT54G's, OpenWRT + OLSR and omni's.
> PCEngines Alix boards + Senao 800mW radios and omni's running OpenWRT
> and OLSR and RouterOS + MME (Mesh Made Easy).
> Only since adding a backbone in have the speeds been remotely desirable.
>
> Charles Wyble wrote:
>   
>> Michael Vale wrote:
>>     
>>> Mesh's are a good idea, and maybe ok in this small scenario, but in a
>>>       
>
>   
>>> real case scenario, they are terribly slow, from one side of the mesh
>>>       
>
>   
>>> to the other you'll be lucky to get any better than dial-up speeds.
>>> sorry to say, but it is true.
>>>       
>> So can you qualify that?
>>
>> What software was used?
>> What hardware?
>> What type of radios/antennas?
>> How many nodes?
>> How recent was this experience?
>>
>> You made a blanket statement, and I tend to react to any blanket 
>> statement with a request for information. :)
>>
>> Thanks.
>>     
>>> Michael.
>>>
>>> Charles Wyble wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Krystin,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for mentioning that. I was planning too but wanted to see 
>>>> what other people suggested. :)
>>>>
>>>> I second the recommendation of a mesh.
>>>>
>>>> Also check out http://www.open80211s.org along with 
>>>> http://www.olsr.org/ (It's easy to call it OSLR I have done that on 
>>>> many occasions. ) :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Krystin wrote:
>>>>  
>>>>         
>>>>> Have you guys looked at any of the freifunk firmware. Using the 
>>>>> OSLR protocol. It works wonderfully on Linksys WRT54G's.
>>>>> http://freifunk.net/wiki/FreifunkFirmwareEnglish
>>>>>
>>>>> The other sujestion and probally the succeeder of the OSLR protocol
>>>>>           
>
>   
>>>>> would be Batman / RO.B.IN http://www.blogin.it/
>>>>>
>>>>>
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