[181343] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Whats' a good product for a high-density Wireless network setup?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Taht)
Sun Jun 21 03:00:48 2015
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Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2015 00:00:45 -0700
From: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: David Lang <david@lang.hm>,
North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 11:45 PM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
>> So....ultimately, what's the answer? A huge number of low cost, low
>> power WAPs? Eager readers want to know. :)
>
> what was unclear about the following?
+1
> Randy Bush wrote:
>> From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
>> Subject: Re: Whats' a good product for a high-density Wireless network s=
etup?
>> To: Mike Lyon <mike.lyon@gmail.com>
>> Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
>> Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2015 08:20:33 +0900
>> ...
>> having been in the back seat for many deployments over the years with
>> all sorts of kit, i have seen great and reliable pretty large
>> deployments of all of the above (well, xirrus only once). i have seen
>> embarrassing messes with all of the above. i have concluded that the
>> critical component is the engineer.
It is totally possible to build a good wifi setup if you know what
you're doing.
David Lang regularly builds a good setup out of commodity parts and
openwrt at SCALE, and talks to the basic issues here:
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/lisa12/lisa12-final-32.pdf
I wish we had more clued people working on wifi. And that conference
organizers/hotels/corps/institutions realized that having people that
knew what they were doing on the wifi was a valuable service for geeky
conferences, at least.
SCALE2015 went excellently, I'm told.
I have some measurements of the nanog network from the SF conference
this past month. pretty terrrible...
--=20
Dave T=C3=A4ht
worldwide bufferbloat report:
http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/results/bufferbloat
And:
What will it take to vastly improve wifi for everyone?
https://plus.google.com/u/0/explore/makewififast
