[Commotion-discuss] Two new instructional documents on wireless and mesh

Fri May 8 02:41:13 EDT 2015

Hi  everyone.
I have found the two new instructional documents very interesting 
especially the guidelines for mesh network.
The problem I'm facing is:
-If I want to build a community network inside  a building(a school for 
example), what is the suggested architecture?
-Is the wireless mesh network still the best option(performance and cost)?
-One issue is the radio propagation in a building across the walls (in 
the same floor and floor to floor).Any special guideline to configure 
the network to manage this ?
-The other issue is the simultaneous access to the app or internet.

-Constrains are:
  -The school is built over three floors.Floor size 6500 m2
  -There are 25 classes.
  -Students 600
  -Share local app running on 1 or more servers
  -Share Internet

Thanks for your support.

Luigi

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> Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 16:25:45 -0400
> From: Andy Gunn <andygunn at opentechinstitute.org>
> To: commotion-discuss <commotion-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
> Subject: [Commotion-discuss] Two new instructional documents on
> 	wireless and	mesh
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> Hi everyone - off and on for the past few months I have been working
> on two new documents - an activity that helps design wireless networks
> (not just mesh networks), and a set of guidelines for building mesh
> networks that take into account the unique way mesh nodes work.
>
> I would love feedback, questions, concerns (and notes about errors!)
> on both of these documents. As always, this documentation is Creative
> Commons, so you can feel free to re-mix it or let me know how to
> improve it.
>
> The first of these is called "Types of Wireless Networks", and you can
> find it here:
> https://commotionwireless.net/docs/cck/networking/types-of-wireless-netw
> orks/
> It has a set of introductory examples of traditional modes of wireless
> - - Access Points, Clients, Point to Point links, Point to MultiPoint,
> Mesh, and so on. It also has a set of flash-card activities you can do
> with community members or individuals that are new to community
> networking, to discuss different ways to build neighborhood or
> town-scale networks. You can download these worksheets in the second
> half of the document, the section labeled "group activity".
>
> There is also a set of lessons we have learned over the years of
> working with communities to build networks - synthesized in
> "Guidelines for Mesh Networks". You can check it out here:
> https://commotionwireless.net/docs/cck/networking/guidelines-for-mesh/
> It has a set of five guidelines, describes the problems that can be
> encountered building mesh networks, and the solutions used to minimize
> or solve those problems. There is also a one-page (double-sided)
> "handout" that can be used in a workshop setting as well.
>
> Thanks everyone,
> - -Andy
>
>
> - -- 
> Andy Gunn, Field Engineer
> Open Technology Institute, New America
> andygunn at opentechinstitute.org | 202-596-3484
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> From: Andy Gunn <andygunn at opentechinstitute.org>
> To: commotion-discuss <commotion-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
> Subject: Re: [Commotion-discuss] Two new instructional documents on
> 	wireless and mesh
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> Whoops, it looks like the link in the previous e-mail didn't wrap correctly:
> https://commotionwireless.net/docs/cck/networking/types-of-wireless-networks/
>
> On 04/09/2015 04:25 PM, Andy Gunn wrote:
>> Hi everyone - off and on for the past few months I have been working
>> on two new documents - an activity that helps design wireless networks
>> (not just mesh networks), and a set of guidelines for building mesh
>> networks that take into account the unique way mesh nodes work.
>>
>> I would love feedback, questions, concerns (and notes about errors!)
>> on both of these documents. As always, this documentation is Creative
>> Commons, so you can feel free to re-mix it or let me know how to
>> improve it.
>>
>> The first of these is called "Types of Wireless Networks", and you can
>> find it here:
>> https://commotionwireless.net/docs/cck/networking/types-of-wireless-netw
>> orks/
>> It has a set of introductory examples of traditional modes of wireless
>> - Access Points, Clients, Point to Point links, Point to MultiPoint,
>> Mesh, and so on. It also has a set of flash-card activities you can do
>> with community members or individuals that are new to community
>> networking, to discuss different ways to build neighborhood or
>> town-scale networks. You can download these worksheets in the second
>> half of the document, the section labeled "group activity".
>>
>> There is also a set of lessons we have learned over the years of
>> working with communities to build networks - synthesized in
>> "Guidelines for Mesh Networks". You can check it out here:
>> https://commotionwireless.net/docs/cck/networking/guidelines-for-mesh/
>> It has a set of five guidelines, describes the problems that can be
>> encountered building mesh networks, and the solutions used to minimize
>> or solve those problems. There is also a one-page (double-sided)
>> "handout" that can be used in a workshop setting as well.
>>
>> Thanks everyone,
>> -Andy
>>
>>
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