> [community networks / various configs] Our research suggests that two (or more) radio cards on the same band (e.g. both 802.11b/g) will halve the throughput due to in box interference (yes, even on separate channels), so we've decided two use two separate boxes, one for backhaul and another for the AP. We may change this now that we're starting to use 802.11a for relays.
See one example of a Soekris based radio (AP or relay) at www.socalfreenet.org/standardap) and the comments at http://socalfreenet.org/book/view/65 for some discussion on the interference (including links to other newsgroups). Fwiw, we're using m0n0wall http://m0n0.ch/wall as a solid simple distro. It doesn't solve all problems, but it sure is easy to configure :-) and to save the config. The big thing missing is a captive portal, so we run that back at the center of our network where the DSL connection comes in. We do local dhcp, dns caching routing at each access point and they all route back through the central gateway where our captive portal is (running RouterOS from www.mikrotik.com). cheers, michael ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ leaf-wisp-dist mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-wisp-dist
