[CUWiN-Dev] G and A and realworld throughput

[David Young]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 01:04:35PM -0500, Stelios Valavanis wrote:
> thanks. we're not doing dual radio now so that's not an issue. for the a 
> driver it looks like we have options but any testing you do please report on. 
> the speed loss with number of hops could be a problem i think i've already 
> got a spot with 4 hops. i'll look at my map again. again anything you learn 
> please pass on. i'm going to try to redesign to reduce hops but one problem 
> is that i don't know how well it'll handle distances. does the mesh protocol 
> connect to the closest node, the most powerful, the fewest hops to the 
> uplink, what? if it tried to get the fewest hops to the uplink i might be in 
> good shape.

The protocol connects to the node that minimizes the number of packet
transmissions, taking into account 802.11 re-transmissions.  It uses
"best paths," for a certain value of "best," instead of "shortest paths."

Dave

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