On Tuesday 10 April 2007 00:09, Vickram Crishna wrote:
Great news. Please link up these how-to-do-it pages in the wsfii wiki also.
The resources idea is brilliant and a great boon. Please see how soon we can make this work. Actually, I think from what I heard in Dharamsala, it should be possible for us to 'mesh' into the system remotely wherever we are located, provided we run OLSR locally and tune it to the same mesh. In that case, downloading the resources will be just a hop or or two away. Is this understanding correct?
More or less. except that the range is limited to about 100 mtr outdoors, so you require an ap every 100 mtrs to expand the mesh, and the latency keeps going up as u move away from the internet gateway point. However if there are a number of aps with an internet connection the situation improves a great deal. Also it is possible to extend the distance between two nodes using directional antennas, but they wont be able to provide connectivity to others around them without one more ap or a splitter amplifier omni antenna.