Hi David, Thanks for your quick reply.
On Saturday 27 September 2014 06:20 PM, David Lang wrote: > > This actually sounds very typical for the way that a wireless network > collapses under load. This behavior is why the OLPC dream of using mesh > networks for everything ended up failing. > > If you can, deploy more nodes with lower power per node to reduce the > interference. I'm not familiar with batman, but more nodes also gives > you more channels to play with (assuming you can use multiple channels) BATMAN does a layer2 meshing without any complicated routing required between nodes. It was all working fine as long as we had 5 nodes and 3 of which were connected to the cabled LAN. Do you suggest we use multiple channels and multiple backhauls on 5GHz for different set of nodes, instead of creating a single mesh? We can do that if it helps. > I notice that you use 40MHz channels for 5GHz, unless you have wired > connections between the nodes, this seems like it's probably a waste as > you only have 20MHz channels on 2.4GHz. In theory it takes less time to > transmit the data on the 40MHz channels, but in practice I'm not sure it > really gains you a lot (it definantly doesn't gain you as much as if you > had two 20MHz channels operating independently in that area) The gateways are connected to 100Mbit/s switch directly that is why I thought of using HT40- in order to provide full LAN bandwidth to the stations in case it is available. I can also try to change it to HT20 and see if it makes any difference. > I cover a lot of this in the talk I gave at LISA in 2012 > https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa12/building-wireless-network-high-density-users. Thanks for the link. I am going to study and decide on the strategy. Regards, Nishant _______________________________________________ openwrt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users
