[Mesh] Ad-hoc mode and cjdns

Hi All, I live in portland OR, and I am just recently getting interested in wireless meshnets. My current setup is two nodes, Raspberry Pi 2 Hardware, one with a tp-link TL-WN722N, and the other with some sort of "panda wireless-n" adapter. My problem is that I am getting around 30% dropped packets, and they are about a foot apart, which makes me wonder if using a ad-hoc is a good idea or not... I have them both running Ubuntu 14.04 <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/RaspberryPi> and the most recent version of cjdns. My network configs are below: root@ubuntu:~# cat /etc/network/interfaces # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8) # Include files from /etc/network/interfaces.d: source-directory /etc/network/interfaces.d # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface auto eth0 allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp auto wlan0 allow-hotplug wlan0 iface wlan0 inet manual wireless-channel 8 wireless-essid NeighborMesh wireless-mode ad-hoc So then I decided to just remove the wireless usb adapters, and run cjdns over the eth0 interfaces, but I am still getting a consistent ~12% packet drop with that: --- fcfe:307d:38e5:5aa4:9bfc:a4ce:dd3d:969c ping statistics --- 76 packets transmitted, 67 received, 11% packet loss, time 75156ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 2.378/26.382/196.791/51.318 ms Pinging the IPv4 address outside of cjdns works great, always: --- 192.168.0.226 ping statistics --- 24 packets transmitted, 24 received, 0% packet loss, time 23002ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.640/0.675/0.783/0.036 ms What am I doing wrong? I *would* like to achieve standalone/independent wireless mesh nodes that dont need a master access point to function. (I am imagining giving one to my geek neighbor, and seeing if we can start a mini mesh network) Does anyone have any suggestions? -Cobin