Re: [IAEP] Mesh Dreams = OLSR

2010-09-03 Thread Reuben K. Caron
Mike, Thank you for the information! To be clear, from what I understand from our discussions in the past you're topology looks like AP(802.11A + OLSRD) - AP (802.11B/G) - XO You have several AP(802.11A + OLSRD) acting as your backbone and they drop down to standard AP (802.11B/G)

Re: [IAEP] Mesh Dreams = OLSR

2010-09-03 Thread Mike Dawson
Hi Reuben, It's AP(802.11N + OLSRD) AP(802.11B/G) - XO - that's it as it is... Actually considered putting up routers outside the school to try and form a cloud that would then link back to the school / library. Haven't yet considered putting that on the XOs - we would need to put some

Re: [IAEP] Mesh Dreams = OLSR

2010-09-03 Thread C. Scott Ananian
I'm not 100% certain we've pulled in members of the OLSR mailing lists on this thread yet. But they've actually got a number of very impressive *real world* demonstrations of OLSRd in the wild. You'll have to search the devel@ archives for 'olsr' to find the emails I sent years ago with all the

Re: [IAEP] Mesh Dreams = OLSR

2010-09-02 Thread Mike Dawson
Hi, Sorry for my late reply to this. Actually we use OLSR in Afghanistan to do our school networking like so: 1. An OLSR router (running openwrt Freifunk ; see freifunk.net ) connects to the other routers in the school - that forms the backbone on one network (e.g. channel 6) 2. A vanilla

Re: [IAEP] Mesh Dreams = OLSR

2010-08-25 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Reuben K. Caron reu...@laptop.org wrote: Where Mesh != 802.11s but rather an adhoc, self healing, self organizing routable network. Cerebro gave a great working demo of what you describe. Don't know how they compare. I think it is perfectly feasible to achieve

Re: [IAEP] Mesh Dreams = OLSR

2010-08-24 Thread Andrés Ambrois
On Tuesday, August 24, 2010 11:26:23 am Chris Ball wrote: Hi Reuben, 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 nodes in Barcelona,