Re: [OLPC-AU] limits on ad-hoc connections

2012-02-09 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:59 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: No, that's not how ad-hoc works.  I'll simplify and translate for you. Your explanation is correct but doesn't exactly match the buggy behaviour of our wireless hardware/firmware. As far as I can tell, the ad-hoc nodes in our

Re: [OLPC-AU] limits on ad-hoc connections

2012-02-08 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 10:16:53PM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Ad-hoc connections only scale to a limited number of participants before problems begin to occur. What are the problems you observe? It may be that the problems you observe are not due to the ad-hoc network, but due to

Re: [OLPC-AU] limits on ad-hoc connections

2012-02-08 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 03:11:42PM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Hmm I am thinking that my understanding of the ad-hoc implementation might be incorrect. I was under the assumption that one XO acts as the ad-hoc host, and the others connect to it. That made me wonder whether that host

Re: [OLPC-AU] limits on ad-hoc connections

2012-02-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
To expand on James' excellent notes... On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 11:59 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: The beacon is used for timing the transmissions, so that they occur in And that is _all_ it can do. It just broadcasts a beacon, like a metronome for a band recording in a studio.