[CWN-Summit] Students tout WiFi co-ops as alternative to municipal WiFi

[Aaron Kaplan]

just wanted to add: the actual HW is basically an accton like the FON.
Currently we buy many FONs in Vienna since they are very cheap at the  
moment (5 EUR).
But I would treat the boxes just like that - cheap, replaceable boxes  
which can run openwrt.
Nothing carrier grade or so, but practical for many end-users with  
less requirements.
See below for the comment on these atheros chips (there are different  
ones also, but not in the meraki/FON/accton).

However, when I hear "meraki" I mostly mean the software.

hope it helped

On Feb 9, 2008, at 4:57 AM, Aaron Kaplan wrote:

>
> On Feb 8, 2008, at 11:16 PM, Stelios Valavanis wrote:
>
>> care to elaborate?
>>
>>
>
> hehe, ok.
>
> well, there are a few points which bother me about meraki  
> currently, some of them:
> *) you can not run them without internet uplink. They need  
> connection to their billing system.
>   Without that they can not connect hence don't allow other mesh  
> nodes to be form a mesh.
> *) they run on very cheap HW which is sometimes what you want but  
> sometimes not what you want.
>   Particularly the single radio does not scale well. I wonder how  
> they plan to connect a whole city (SF) like that??
> *) These atheros chips offloads the radio computation to the CPU.  
> Many packets? -> lots of CPU load -> packetloss
>
>
> a.
>
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