On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 17:40, Martin Langhoff <martin.langh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Ed McNierney <e...@laptop.org> wrote: >> Under a tree, using mesh networking is pointless (unless, I suppose, >> it is an extraordinarily large tree). Mesh networking allows packet > > You guys are both right. At the SF meetings, if you have a bunch of > XOs + an Active Antenna, you are using a combination of > > - 802.11s > - Telepathy-based collaboration, using either Gabble (via ejabberd) > or Salut (without XS)
Also, I think using salut is much worst in the mesh case than gabble? Regards, Tomeu > Now, in a small place, all machines can "hear" eachother's signals, so > while you are using 802.11s, you are not enjoying any of its benefits. > > (And given what we know about 802.11s, you probably have less > bandwidth to use, just because you are using 802.11s. Or, to put it > another way, you'll have a saturated wifi with a small number of XOs, > where 802.11g can handle more XOs.) > > Taking advantage of 802.11s not "hard", but it doesn't happen often. > You just have to have a few XOs far enough from the AA that they need > to do routing. It works. (Of course, it doesn't work if you've > saturated the spectrum.) > > Our XO-1s using 8.2.1 never actually use ad hoc. The driver reports it > as such, but it's not ad hoc. Now, if you are all close enough, it's > almost the same as using ad hoc mode. > > > > > m > -- > martin.langh...@gmail.com > mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect > - ask interesting questions > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
