[Commotion-dev] Note about mixing phone/pc clients and nanostations

Jordan McCarthy mccarthy at opentechinstitute.org
Thu Oct 10 19:24:29 UTC 2013


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In the course of testing out various PC clients, I've been
experiencing consistent flakiness whenever a particular node has been
active on our test network.  Today I realized that this problematic
node is a nanostation, and that the signal that it puts out is strong
enough that all of the PC clients immediately begin favoring this node
as their primary point of contact - even though the PCs' antennas are
far, far too weak to actually transmit data back to the nanostation.
Sure enough, as soon as I turned off the nanostation the PC client
began behaving itself once again.

So as more Commotion clients come on line, please remember: not all
antennas are created equal!

Jordan
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Jordan McCarthy
Open Technology Institute | New America Foundation
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