Re: limits on ad-hoc connections

2012-02-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:16 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: Ad-hoc connections only scale to a limited number of participants before problems begin to occur. The technically correct answer is it depends. And it is true, it depends on a ton of factors. As a rule of thumb,

Re: limits on ad-hoc connections

2012-02-08 Thread Sameer Verma
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:23 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:16 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: Ad-hoc connections only scale to a limited number of participants before problems begin to occur. The technically correct answer is

Re: limits on ad-hoc connections

2012-02-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: wiki.laptop.org/images/a/a3/Country_Technical_Support.pdf recommends 10 per channel on mesh. Given that 802.11s draft vs ad-hoc is really a layer 2 issue, the numbers should be in that neighborhood? I would fix that document

Re: limits on ad-hoc connections

2012-02-08 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 8 February 2012 23:23, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:16 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: Ad-hoc connections only scale to a limited number of participants before problems begin to occur. The technically correct answer is it

Re: limits on ad-hoc connections

2012-02-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: Can we impose a hard limit on the number of clients to prevent too many XOs connecting to a single ad-hoc session? As James says... unfortunately no. This is possible on many wireless access points. Why isn't it

Re: limits on ad-hoc connections

2012-02-08 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 9 February 2012 14:59, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: More generally, when you have a central node (the AP) there's a node that can carry the accounting, and has the authority to say who's welcome and who's not. I don't know if 802.11a/b/g/n has a mechanism to reject

Re: limits on ad-hoc connections

2012-02-08 Thread Paul Fox
sridhar wrote: On 9 February 2012 14:59, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: More generally, when you have a central node (the AP) there's a node that can carry the accounting, and has the authority to say who's welcome and who's not. I don't know if 802.11a/b/g/n has