Thank you, Jof. I'll loop you, hopefully by later today.<div><br></div><div>Are there any strong feelings for or against this discussion continuing on the list, or should I set up a different listserv?</div><div><br></div>
<div>Psytek, are there any notes from last night?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>Willow Brugh // <a href="http://blog.bl00cyb.org/" target="_blank">willowbl00</a><br></div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,238);text-decoration:underline"></span><div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Jonathan Lassoff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jof@thejof.com" target="_blank">jof@thejof.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Willow Brugh <<a href="mailto:willow.bl00@gmail.com">willow.bl00@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> So things are pretty messed up in Far Rockaways and Staten Island. Likely<br>
> some other places as well, but that's all I can speak to right now. What<br>
> would really benefit everyone are mesh networks on old laptops - then<br>
> communities have an easier time of coordinating themselves, and at least<br>
> nominal information can be uploaded via vsat.<br>
><br>
> is this something that folk are into helping with?<br>
<br>
</div>I'm marginally interested.<br>
However, I would caution that "mesh" is not easy to do well with<br>
ad-hoc administration. I've seen it work well in either very small<br>
environments, or those that have one administrative group for<br>
everything.<br>
<br>
A Ubiquiti PTMP AP in a high location with downstream Ubiquiti clients<br>
speaking Airmax will work quite well, IMO. They've solved the hidden<br>
node problem inherent in multi-point, long distance WiFi shots.<br>
<br>
Lately, I've been doing a lot of experimentation with 802.11s and<br>
open80211s on Ubiquiti hardware and Linux laptops.<br>
<br>
There is good support in Linux for wifi adapters that are based on the<br>
mac80211 (software MAC) stack.<br>
<br>
I'd be happy to share what I know about it.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
jof<br>
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