It depends upon what you mean. We have situations where even two laptops connected by simple mesh fail to properly transfer data. Then again, the failures also occur in the other 3 scenarios as well.
-walter On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dafydd Harries wrote: > > This is something which was not completely clear to me until I talked to > Wad > > about it the other day, and I think other people might find it useful. It > > should probably go on the wiki (assuming it isn't already there > somewhere). I'd > > like some feedback about where it belongs. The closest thing I've found is > this > > page: > > > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Scenario_taxonomy > > > > Any errors are my own. > > > > There are four networking scenarios: > > > > - simple mesh > > - no access point > > - no school server > > - we are currently aiming to support up to 15 laptops in this case > > > We are beyond 15 laptops in the simple mesh scenario. I am consistently > testing "simple mesh" with 30 laptops and we are aiming for more than > 50. Scaling the "simple mesh" somewhere between 50 - 100 laptops may > have significant impact on the (potential need for) other scenarios. > > Pol > > > > - simple WiFi > > - access points > > - which tend not to handle multicast very well (1Mbit/s peak) > > - no school server > > - this is what G1G1 laptops will tend to encounter > > - typically in the developed world > > - school mesh > > - no access point > > - school server with Jabber server > > - school WiFi > > - access points > > - school server with Jabber server > > - only one server at a time > > - this is what is deployed in Peru > > > > Our current priority in terms of collaboration is to improve supprt for the > > fourth case, as this is the situation most of our existing laptops are > > deployed in, and it's likely that upcoming deployments will be similar. Our > > secondary priority is improving support for the second case, as this is > what > > will tend happen when laptops are taken home from school. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
