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

[Stelios Valavanis]

one problem with meraki is that it's single radio so you're backhaul between 
radios and also wifi connections to end users is all contending for the same 
air space. has anyone else employed a 2-radio setup like cuwin did so you can 
have the backhaul separate (say on 802.11a or n on 5.8ghz) from the wifi side 
that end users can tap into?

On Wednesday 19 November 2008 10:47:40 am L. Aaron Kaplan wrote:
> 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.
>
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