10 Jan
2016
10 Jan
'16
5:35 p.m.
Interesting. No 5 ghz though? If you're worried about L2
retransmissions
that seems like the first thing to solve.
Any ideas how to test and how to solve if there L2 retransmissions are
an issue? Would shielding help? Most client devices are still single band, only
premium devices have
dual band chips, and my rough estimate that that is around 10% od
devices... so currently it makes little sense to for dual band, better
to have two or three radios and have more capacity.
Again it's not about the clients. Yes by all means 2.4ghz is the clear
winner for client comms. 5ghz is going to be for inter router
communications. It's clean and dedicated pipe to back haul all the
aggregate client connections to other routers/the internet etc.
And TP-LINK WDR3600 and WDR4300 boards are quite bit larger that WR841
boards and I'll have to see if that even makes it possible to 3D print
whole case...
So you can't afford 5ghz dual band boars, but you have 3d printing
capability in the refugee camp? That seems.... unusual. :)
How much does it cost you to 3d print the cases?
This first version we are developing will have only
2.4Ghz radios and
next one will have dual band radios as well...
Awesome. Keep us posted. This is incredibly cool if you can pull it off.
What firmware addons are you using for the auto plug/play? sudomesh?
openmesh? Roll your own? QMP?
Full disclosure, I'm co-founder of the Free Network Foundation and we
have a vested interest in stuff like this taking off. :)