[181345] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Whats' a good product for a high-density Wireless network setup?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Lyon)
Sun Jun 21 03:07:09 2015
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Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2015 00:04:04 -0700
From: Mike Lyon <mike.lyon@gmail.com>
To: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
Cc: David Lang <david@lang.hm>,
North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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What gear was used at the last NANOG in SF? Was it indeed Xirrus?
-Mike
On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 12:00 AM, Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> setup?
> >> 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...
>
> --
> 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
>
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