[181339] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Whats' a good product for a high-density Wireless network setup?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Hale)
Sun Jun 21 02:41:16 2015
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Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2015 23:41:12 -0700
From: Mike Hale <eyeronic.design@gmail.com>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: NANOG Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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So....ultimately, what's the answer? A huge number of low cost, low
power WAPs? Eager readers want to know. :)
On Jun 20, 2015 10:30 PM, "Randy Bush" <randy@psg.com> wrote:
> > My understanding is that the most recent NANOG had issues with clients
> > picking channels sequentially vs by signal strength. There may have
> > been other issues but when all devices use 149 because that's the
> > first they can and they get link that's not good.
>
> we're lucky those mean vicious bad clients don't also come to ietf,
> wwdc, crisco live, ... oh wait ...
>
> you are blaming the customer as if you worked for a telco. oh wait ...
> :)
>
> > If people know of tricks to solve this when there are 600-1000 devices
> > per room i am certain the NANOG eng team would love to know about it.
>
> clue: with 600-1000 geeks there are gonna be 2k-4k devices.
>
> randy
>
