[wsfii-discuss] WasabiNet mesh in St. Louis appeared on local TV news!

Mon Nov 15 09:10:56 UTC 2010

  I don't think that in the case of p2p links the absence of ad-hoc mode 
is a major issue, because even in the scenario of 1 master and several 
slaves, the topology of the backbone doesn't change that often. You can 
always hook a 2.4 GHz mesh device next to the p2p link. And I don't know 
if virtual AP makes sense for p2p devices either - you want the 
bandwidth on the backbone, and usually not share it with clients... but 
maybe I'm missing some use cases.

Alex

On 11/15/2010 06:43 AM, Ben West wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Thanks for the tips.  I'm actually planning to deploy a couple 
> Ubiquiti 5.8GHz radios this week, a Rocket M and a Nanostation M5, to 
> try things out.
>
> The goal is to build with these a small backbone mesh (~10 nodes) to 
> supply wired uplinks to 2.4GHz mesh devices, i.e. gateways for 
> WasabiNet mesh.  I only plan to have exclusively my own 5.8Ghz radios 
> participate in the backbone mesh; actual end users would still connect 
> at 2.4GHz.
>
> Are there more details on the limitations of mesh topology with the 
> current AirOS+OLSR firmware, in the absence of adhoc/adhemo?  The 
> screenshots below do suggest you do have a functioning mesh with 
> gateway(s)/repeaters.
> http://wiki.graz.funkfeuer.at/UbntStationsScreens
>
> Also, I happened to find recent mention of Virtual AP support in AirOS 
> v5.3b2 on the Ubiquiti forum:
> http://www.ubnt.com/forum/showthread.php?t=24410
>
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 7:09 AM, L. Aaron Kaplan <aaron at lo-res.org 
> <mailto:aaron at lo-res.org>> wrote:
>
>
>     On Oct 28, 2010, at 10:39 AM, Alexander List wrote:
>
>>     Ben,
>>
>>     equinox in Graz did some work to get OLSR support into the
>>     Ubiquiti AirOS and even integrate OLSR configuration with the
>>     AirOS UI...
>>
>
>     To add to this - this allows us to use the very cool AirView
>     Spectrum Analyzer scanner which is part of AirOS.
>     The downside of course is that not everything is 100% open source
>     here.
>     Well, mostly FOSS at least.
>
>     Another sidenote: at the wireless summit in the hacklab we found
>     out that the speed test of AirOS was done from within a kernel
>     module, so... the speed that you get on user space will differ
>     from this of course.
>
>     Thanks equinox (Christian)  :)
>
>     Best,
>     a.
>
>
>>     https://wiki.graz.funkfeuer.at/UbntStations
>
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