[MLB-WIRELESS] Response to meshing

Jason Hecker jason at air.net.au
Mon Jan 21 22:26:39 EST 2002


> >From our experience there is problems when you forward packets via a single
>Node, there will be traffic problems when the network is under pressure, and
>the node will get to the stage of not being able to respond to the requests.

I fear this would happen if Melbwireless depended on too few central nodes 
and doesn't allow some sort of load sharing between access points.

>There is no center node as suggested on the network and all nodes load share
>the total network data, because of this we don't nor will we have the
>problems that Jason has mentioned.

Ah, I think a colleague of yours explained to me that there were several 
central nodes, namely NAB building, somewhere out northeast and south.  No 
mention was made of node load balancing so I inferred that there was a 
dependancy for all the clients to access the network in a star fashion from 
around town without forwarding the packets from others.

>The Megalink Network also doesn't use 802.11b which was mentioned, which
>means that it doesn't suffer from the same problems that 802.11b has.

Ah, OK.  So is it using 802.11b hardware with the optimised system from 
Karlnet?

>You always find that people will often make comments about things that they
>no very little about.

Well, how about discussing with us how your network operates?  I'm keen to 
know.  Or some hyperlinks that go in depth about the technology?  We need 
all the help we can get.


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