hi Dave, Your point is well taken, and we certainly want to be "good neighbors". The link sizes (at this point) are very small, typically under 1 mile. However, the density of 802.11 equipment in the area is very high. It's getting to the point where I'm considering baking some SDWUG cookies and visiting all the Linksys/DLink/Netgear APs (which all seem to use default SSIDs) and begging them to unplug their AP and use our free network instead. :-)
Take it easy, -Lee San Diego Wireless Users Group http://www.sdwug.org http://www.socalfreenet.org On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, David Young wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:57:08PM -0800, Lee Barken wrote: > > Well, the problem isn't the client access method (802.11b to the clients). > > The problem is the backhaul (in our case, also 802.11b). Given the > > enormous "clutter" in the 2.4GHz band, we're finding it increasingly > > difficult to build reliable links between our rooftops. > > I am curious. How long are these links? Is the clutter apparent at > the omni "hub" or on the directional "spokes," both, or neither? Is it > 802.11 clutter? > > Do you think that you are interfering with other operators? Occasionally > home APs interfere with the rooftop network I run in Urbana. I am > pretty certain that the Urbana rooftop network is (for the most part) > invisible to those APs, because the receiver on a home AP is not > ordinarily as sensitive as the Senao receivers. This puts our network > at a disadvantage getting access to the medium. To compensate for the > unevenness in receivers, I have considered raising the energy thresholds > for transmit-deferral and for reception, but I have not gotten around to > it yet. I don't know if this will help us, let alone the San Diego net, > but it is something to consider. > > Dave > > -- > David Young OJC Technologies > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Urbana, IL * (217) 278-3933 > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
