[hackerspaces] What's your WiFi setup?

[Matt Joyce]

Never could tell.  Just heard repeated complaints from folks.  Most of
them just unplugged / replugged or swapped to failover... so no triage
ever could be done, and there was no way to reproduce the problem.

=/

switched to another router and complaints went away.

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Jonathan Lassoff <jof at thejof.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Matt Joyce <matt at nycresistor.com> wrote:
>> Just chiming in.
>>
>> I've also heard about openwrt scaling issues.
>>
>> I know at nycresistor we had failures under large numbers of folks
>> operating with the fonera2.0n units.  Work solid at home... but
>> scaling... nopers.
>
> Any idea what issues you or others were seeing? What was the bottleneck?
>
> I'm curious, as I'm currently working on an OpenWRT-based access
> network and haven't had any issues in the architecture.
>
> Was it an issue with OpenWRT, or perhaps an 802.11 scaling limitation?
> Maybe a manifestation of the hidden node problem?
>
> The advantage to some of the more "enterprise"-ey systems is that they
> can coordinate the configuration of many APs (either from a central
> box, or in a distributed fashion), tuning radios to other frequencies
> and deassciating clients as they get closer to other APs.
>
> Cheers,
> jof
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