[MLB-WIRELESS] What do people want to do with the wireless connection?

[Josh Davis-Ryan]

thanks man!!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barry Park" <bpark at theage.fairfax.com.au>
To: <melbwireless at melbwireless.dyndns.org>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 12:49 PM
Subject: RE: [MLB-WIRELESS] What do people want to do with the wireless
connection?


> Bridges are generally used to extend the reach and capacity of a single
LAN
> system over long distance links. In this type of network, there's a
central
> access point, or an island of access, connected to another distant access
> point via a wireless bridge. Nodes connect to their nearest access point
and
> use the wireless bridge to leapfrog to other remote parts of the network.
>
> A routed network relies on a cluster of overlapping or interconnected
nodes.
> There's generally no central access point and users are linked in a
> free-flowing daisy chain to each other. If you want something from another
> node, the network discovers the best path via all the active nodes
available
> at that time.
>
> The only reason I have suggested bridging is that nodes appear to be
> clustering in isolated patches all over Melbourne (and beyond). Bridging
> with access points might be a (temporary) solution to giving more people a
> chance to point an antenna at something as well as interconnecting the
outer
> suburban fringes with the tightly clustered inner city areas. The other
> concern is that while the network is in an early developmental stage,
users
> relying on one neighboring node for their connectivity to the greater
> network will suffer at the whim of their closest node's on/off switch.
>
> - Barry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Davis-Ryan [mailto:joshdr at optushome.com.au]
> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 12:14 PM
> To: melbwireless at melbwireless.dyndns.org
> Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] What do people want to do with the wireless
> connection?
>
>
> feel me in, i dont understand most of that...whats bridged...will u need
> like directional annetenas ponting at differnt point of access....im
> lost..reply or point me to a web site with lots of facts..
>
> thanks
>
>
>
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