Jim Gettys wrote: > Most commodity access points don't work well with large numbers of > clients; their design center is a house with a few users. Identifying > pretty cheap, access points that don't have this problem would be good > to do.
Right. On the OLPC scale, though, management and logistics cost of the access points become serious factors to consider. > The laptops, even used as an access point, will function much better > than the typical cheap access points you buy in a store. And there are various approaches to take here. One laptop won't be able to serve as an AP to a thousand others if we enact the standard, fully-centralized AP model. But there's a lot of research[0] that deals with data querying and routing in mesh networks; we could likely turn some of it inside out to provide a laptop AP mode that scales to large numbers of clients. We can't match the level of service provided by high-powered dedicated AP hardware, but we can make things work. [0] e.g. Zhao, Liu, Lui, Guibas and Reich (2003) or Chu, Haussecker, Zhao (2002) -- Ivan Krstic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GPG: 0x147C722D -- olpc-software mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/olpc-software
