>>>>> "Joe" == Joe Christensen <[email protected]> writes:
Joe> I thought mesh networking might have functionality built in to Joe> manage the channel selection and power setting of the AP by Joe> performing an automatic wireless survey on power up. By mesh networking, it is usually meant that the radios forward packets over the air to a gateway device. All radios participating in such a mesh *must* be on the same channel (they can't channel hop fast enough for anything else to work). Therefore, mesh in a crowded radio environment is definitely FAIL. You can have separate meshes on separate channels, but ... why? Use wires and be *much* happier. Joe> [...] If this were the case you could run a cable to each one and Joe> have an easy to configure high density solution. But they aren't meshing anymore. They are just bridging off the ethernet like any off-the-shelf AP would do. Joe> Does anyone have general comments regarding meraki and open-mesh? Joe> (not event wifi related) Personally, I hate the meraki dashboard. I have not liked their mixed messages towards device re-flashers. Their TOS say: "you must not modify our software" and the shell login message includes "Happy Hacking". I prefer the latter. I have briefly played with the open-mesh stuff, but not long enough to form an opinion. I dislike the third-party dashboard idea in general, where they control the software that runs on it, when it gets updated, etc. -- Russell Senior, Secretary [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.general/ Etiquette: http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/MailingListEtiquette List information: http://lists.personaltelco.net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
