Re: Mesh Dreams = OLSR

2010-08-24 Thread L. Aaron Kaplan
On Aug 24, 2010, at 5:24 PM, Richard A. Smith wrote: On 08/24/2010 10:13 AM, Reuben K. Caron wrote: Consider the benefits of using open source software versus our closed source firmware and partnering with communities like Freifunk whose network is ~ 800 node, guifi.net is almost 10k

Re: Mesh Dreams = OLSR

2010-08-24 Thread L. Aaron Kaplan
On Aug 24, 2010, at 5:24 PM, Richard A. Smith wrote: On 08/24/2010 10:13 AM, Reuben K. Caron wrote: Consider the benefits of using open source software versus our closed source firmware and partnering with communities like Freifunk whose network is ~ 800 node, guifi.net is almost 10k

Re: Mesh Dreams = OLSR

2010-08-24 Thread L. Aaron Kaplan
) bouncing off the walls etc. 802.11n thrives off these multipath effects. As I said - first solve layer 1 2 issues and then think about layer 3 meshing. I hope I could help. Best regards, L. Aaron Kaplan (OE1SYS) PS: please forward my answers to the list or allow me to post to the list. I am

Re: Mesh Dreams = OLSR

2010-08-24 Thread L. Aaron Kaplan
(...) BTW Richard, as far as I remember the problems with 802.11s seemed to be: 1) the standard is not a standard and it was intentionally crippled 2) the drivers were very b0rked and broken (and Marvel did a terrible job with the driver software) Scalability to less than 30 laptops

Re: Mesh Dreams = OLSR

2010-08-24 Thread L. Aaron Kaplan
On Aug 24, 2010, at 7:11 PM, Reuben K. Caron wrote: On Aug 24, 2010, at 11:24 AM, Richard A. Smith wrote: The largest of our mesh problems did not have to do with scalability on sheer number of nodes but rather scalability in density. Is there any information available on how these

Re: Mesh Dreams = OLSR

2010-08-24 Thread L. Aaron Kaplan
On Aug 24, 2010, at 7:20 PM, Richard A. Smith wrote: On 08/24/2010 01:01 PM, L. Aaron Kaplan wrote: Well - the issue is IMHO that OLPC always sold the public on the mesh idea. So it is somewhat of a bummer that the mesh is gone now. Let me re-phrase what I said before all the rumors

Re: Mesh Dreams = OLSR

2010-08-24 Thread L. Aaron Kaplan
On Aug 24, 2010, at 7:32 PM, Reuben K. Caron wrote: On Aug 24, 2010, at 1:29 PM, L. Aaron Kaplan wrote: Hm well, you at least got me thinking how we can make a small dense indoor mesh working without APs interesting challenge. Like think about replacing those smart APs

Re: New, more realistic multi-hop network testbed

2008-06-08 Thread Aaron Kaplan
would it make sense to at least enter that request into the projectdb since that is what it was made for? (apart from the feature requests which will be taken care of at some time, it does hold the data and hence it can help in tracking the XOs) On a different note: in larger mesh networks

Re: New, more realistic multi-hop network testbed

2008-06-06 Thread Aaron Kaplan
On Jun 6, 2008, at 10:31 PM, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: In the spirit of escalating collaboration/communication use cases to more realistic scenarios, I 'd like to propose creating the following multihop network testbed. This testbed will involve about 70 nodes, but most are already

Re: New, more realistic multi-hop network testbed

2008-06-06 Thread Aaron Kaplan
This is mainly an outdoor test with indoor nodes ;-) The idea is be as realistic as possible and try to replicate the actual village environment, only in its worst possible form: Including the high radio noise levels of MIT. We should not enforce connectivity by means of external

Re: 15 computer science collegians looking for a project

2008-05-05 Thread Aaron Kaplan
On May 5, 2008, at 8:38 PM, NoiseEHC wrote: I have registered on said page but when I click to my projects it goes to wiki.laptop.org and all I can see an empty page. Are those people over dang! thanks, you found a bug. Actually a regression. It already worked. Will have to investigate.

Re: Ad-hoc Networking

2008-04-27 Thread Aaron Kaplan
On Apr 27, 2008, at 8:53 PM, Robert Withrow wrote: Aaron Kaplan wrote: there *are* open source layer 2 and layer 3 mesh software solutions out there. Not to forget Open80211S.org (http://www.open80211s.org/). yup! what is the current status on that actually

Re: Ad-hoc Networking

2008-04-26 Thread Aaron Kaplan
On Apr 24, 2008, at 2:26 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: Looking at trac, wireless is one of the biggest sources of bugs and the community can hardly do anything about it. Normally, somebody who complains can be told to fix the code, but with a closed wireless firmware, complaining is

Re: Walter leaving and shift to XP.

2008-04-25 Thread Aaron Kaplan
On Apr 23, 2008, at 1:25 AM, Joshua N Pritikin wrote: By my judgment, I'm glad Richard Stallman isn't running OLPC. He would have delayed the launch until we have a GPL'd replacement for the mesh firmware. As it is now, we have a laptop which is more pure license- wise than any other

Re: Wireless Congestion Management Option

2008-04-03 Thread Aaron Kaplan
On Apr 2, 2008, at 5:24 PM, John Watlington wrote: Meshes of access points don't tend to change topology over time. The laptop mesh very well might. The need to handle this is one of the problems causing congestion. Anybody find new algorithms for mobile meshes ? As well there are plenty

Re: Gen2 pointing device

2007-12-25 Thread Aaron Kaplan
What about a second camera and tracking head movements? Sonar? Can't I just point with my nose? http://www.olpcaustria.org/mediawiki/index.php/Headtracker working on it... a. --- there's no place like 127.0.0.1 ___ Devel mailing list

Re: New lurker! :-)

2007-10-16 Thread Aaron Kaplan
Running activities in the jhbuild (sugar-emulator) environment on Ubuntu is going to be tough. We've not done much to support running Sugar on distros other than Fedora 7. That could be an interesting project, but certainly it would require you to upgrade at least to something like Feisty

Re: [OLPC Networking] Wireless porting

2007-10-12 Thread Aaron Kaplan
very interested over here as well... Would it be out of the way to post the original proposal? BTW - on a side note: polychronis: great work with the mesh view! Simon Dorner mentioned that having small faces of the kids in the mesh view would be even better. Humans tend to remember faces

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2007-07-28 Thread Aaron Kaplan
groups. I strongly believe that the local groups over the long run can have an important impact to the whole project. So let's get started! thanks for your attention, Aaron Kaplan. --- C.O.S.H.E.R. - Completely Open Source Headers Engineering and Research