Hi,
I could imagine some degradation may occur when a single radio AP is meshed. Would a dual radio AP sustain a higher bandwidth as one radio is meshed and the other is accessed by clients? If so, could a recommendation be made for a dual radio AP?
regards, Jeff
On 28 Nov 2006 16:32:11 -0800, snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote in :
For two radios with minimum interference, cable a wireless Ethernet (client) bridge to a wireless access point on a different non-overlapping channel (using the same SSID).
No imagination required. Store and forward is slow, wasteful, inefficient, disgusting, but cheap.
Yes. Some of the mesh wireless network vendors offer dual radios. See:
Note that Belair offers a dual band solution, where the 2nd radio is on 5.8GHz.
The leader is currently Tropos which finally produced a similar dual radio, dual band product:
If you want to jump in with both feet, I suggest you first read the research papers from MIT Roofnet mesh network to see how a working mesh network scales and acts. There were quite a few suprises for me.
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No, I can't. I try not to make recommendations without knowing what you're trying to accomplish, what you have to work with, and what environment you're trying to deploy it. I also like to recommend stuff that I've played with. So far, I've only tinkered with Wi-Fi mesh and don't like any of the systems that I've seen. Mesh networks are not a universal solution to all problems and do not really replace the backhaul.
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