Frank Keeney wrote:
>As you know MeshNetworks is not compatible with 802.11b
Mesh Networks exhibited at the 802.11 Planet conference back in December
and I spoke with their people at length. They use 802.11b so they are
certainly compatible with it. It is true that cards without their features
would not benefit from the mesh, but they would work.
At present, they are targeting "campus" or "building" networks, not open
metropolitan networks. Much of their benefit comes from keeping all the
radios within a close distance so that 802.11 operates at its peak speed,
instead of degrading to a lower speed to accommodate a weak signal. Even
relaying a message three times at 11Mbps is faster than passing it once
at 1Mbps or 2Mbps.
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