[CWN-Summit] Seeking advice on low-cost mesh node wifi in St. Louis, Missouri, USA

[L. Aaron Kaplan]

Stephen Ronan wrote:
> Good point. I don't have the relevant experience to be able to vouch
> for Meraki's continuing efficacy with more than a hundred nodes all
> interlinked on the same channel and network in a compact neighborhood.
> I haven't tried it and would be wary of doing so. At the same time, it
> would seem that, in most circumstances, if one started to see problems
> over a certain density, one could  start to use additional networks
> using separate channels. A while back, with a network of close to a
> hundred Netgear WGT634U devices running Roofnet in a single housing

I totally agree!
Single channel meshes (batman, meraki, ...) over 100 nodes seems like
asking for trouble.

> development, we needed to separate a cluster of the centrally located
> ones onto a separate channel and that worked well.
> I'm not sure what exactly Meraki is doing for its mile square or
> larger deployments
> <http://meraki.com/solutions/business/municipal/>... whether devices
> are all on the same network running on the same channel, how many
> devices they consider adequate for such a deployment, what experience
> they have with highly concentrated networks with a great many devices
> in a single very dense residential neighborhood...
>   - Stephen

I *guess* they must use some kind of multichannel super node. But I
would love to be corrected ;-))


BTW: it is cool that this list got some new posts!
Way to go.

a.