[wsfii-discuss] Preflashed FOSS mesh router history ...

Wed Apr 8 10:18:30 UTC 2009

hallo,

tja, kaum macht mans wirklich, geht der ärger auch schon los...

nicht glauben, sondern messen!
gruss horst
offlinehorst at web.de

sebastian buettrich wrote:
> dear all,
> 
> On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 19:20 +0000, james stevens wrote:
> 
>> Does anyone else here use Open-Mesh.. how are you getting on..?
> 
> hello from copenhagen -
> 
> sharing the respect and thanks to all that have been involved in
> developing the open-mesh product (hw and sw),
> 
> however we have to say that after testing a batch of 20 nodes,
> we were not very pleased - on hardware level.
> 
> stability problems, dropouts, need for powercycles, unstable RF output
> over the various channels, etc
> 
> i tried to find time at the ICTP recently to measure this thoroughly,
> and document - but didnt.
> some of the reasons for the odd behavior are known, others not.
> 
> at the moment, in that price class i d prefer the Ubiquitis.
> 
> but, to underline again,
> 
> no disrespect at all for the great work -
> 
> maybe we were just unlucky and caught a monday batch.
> 
> i d also need to add that we tested the nodes in an area of extremely
> dense 802.11b/g ..... 50+ accessible networks in my living room, ...
> 
> (and the open-meshes are vulnerable to that)
> 
> 
> best to all,
> 
> sebastian
> 
> 
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