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= Interesting questions to ask = | |||
Some questions we may want to ask existing groups. | |||
*What kind of hardware do you use? Do you limit to only certain models, or only a, b, g or n, or only 2.4 ghz or 5 ghz? | |||
*What do you do about wifi channels? Is the whole mesh running on a single channel. If not, how do you bridge the different segments on the mesh running on different channels? | |||
From the #freifunk channel on open.ircnet.net: | |||
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<Juul> I noticed that freifunk community profiles don't contain the wifi channel. How do the routers decide which channel to use? Just based on the channel of the network with the specified ssid? I noticed a node on the freifunk map that had something like ch36.freifunk.net as its ssid. Isn't it really problematic to have different nodes using different channels? | |||
<alice> Juul: sure, the local community must agree on one channel | |||
<bob> Juul: if no channel is given in the profile cannel 1 is used | |||
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*Do you use IPv4 or IPv6? Why? | |||
*How do you assign IP addresses? It seems like DHCP doesn't really work for OLSR, but for batman-adv there is a hack to make it function. | |||
*How do you do mapping of nodes? Is that part of the mesh also decentralized (Freifunk uses a central server). | |||
*How do you handle firmware upgrade. Do you rely on users to update their firmwares or do you have some other mechanism? | |||
*Does your mesh attempt to use multiple internet gateways "simultaneously", e.g. by allowing each connection to a new server to go through a new internet gateway, or by using tricks like splitting http downloads across multiple TCP connections and downloading in chunks? | |||
*Do you use squid proxy or similar on internet gateway nodes? | |||
*How do you handle bandwidth shaping / quality of service on internet gateway nodes? | |||
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