2009/8/11 Simon Schampijer <si...@schampijer.de>: > I wonder if the ad-hoc network will scale up to that number of users :/ > Though I am not an expert in this area. Maybe Daniel has some more > insights on this topic.
Yes. Ad-hoc networks do not scale at all because they are range limited. They also act quite odd in terms of networks because you frequently have situations where C can see A and B, but A and B are unaware of each others presence. This will lead to funky situations where C could share an activity, A and B could join without problems, but any actions by A would not be seen by B and vice-versa. The basic philosophy behind ad-hoc networks is "shout unless someone else is shouting" which also ends up causing various network splices and merges thanks to the poor quality of radios in the world, and interference. In short, ad-hoc networks are not reliable (especially when there are more than 2 participants) and are very quirky. It is a nice feature to have in sugar but it is not something that should be created automatically since in many cases they will just waste airtime for reliable networks and cause headaches for users. Automatic infrastructure-less networks are still very desirable of course, and the best solution that I know of for that would be open80211s which needs work done lower in the stack before it can be directly usable by sugar. and we're miles off topic on a thread about icons.. sigh Daniel _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel