On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Michael Torrie <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/12/2013 03:46 PM, S. Dale Morrey wrote: > > I was always under the impression that every node that you add to a mesh > network that cannot directly see a node elsewhere in the mesh will half > your current bandwidth. > > I know that a simple repeater halves your bandwidth because it has to > listen, then transmit, then listen, then transmit. Doubles the amount > of data that is transmitted, effectively. If the repeater can overlap > it's transmission with receiving, then maybe that decrease would be > minimized.
http://meshdynamics.com/performance-analysis.html Mesh dynamics products don't have this limitation. Here's a good diagram illustrating this exact problem that you mention. They use 3 antennas, two for backhaul (up and down), all on non-interfering channels resulting in much higher bandwidth shared equally among all nodes regardless of hops from the root station. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
