On Tuesday 11 September 2007 23:31:50 Roger Borges wrote: > It would probably be good in an outback setting where there are just a > couple of people who want to talk to each other, but four hops in a mesh > network is considered overwhelming for network reliability, so I don't > think this would work so well in, let's say, a cafe, or walking down the > streets of a big city. Unless some new protocols have arisen that I'm not > aware of, I don't think mobile devices yet have the processing power to > communicate in a thick mesh network, either. >
but at the point one moves into the outback one may well pick up some cheap 2-way radios that these days comes with 3 times the range often. still, if one only wants to carry one device, this may well work out. _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community