[MLB-WIRELESS] good article

[Michael Bailey]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 07:29:06PM +0100, vortex wrote:
> 
> you really do not want 70 ppl on one BSS or IBSS PoP (access point or host)

They are running 12 APs.
 
> IBSS will give massive 'hidden node' issues.

What are these? What do people know about the bad points with iBSS?
How many clients can connect to an AP reasonably?
Assuming a lot of users will be always connected but inactive most
of the time, will this mean more connections can be supported?

- Mike

> BSS will get very very busy (and using BSS means AP-AP BSS communication (for 
> roaming, etc) is only possible between same brand of firmware & chipset - 
> this is not specified in IEEE standards - yet! :-/ )
> 
> HAL2001 had probably the largest wireless network installation yet recorded 
> with over 650 wireless devices spread unevenly over about 10 network APs.  
> Alberto Escudero-Pascual is going to write a paper on analysis of the data he 
> collected during this massive ad hoc get-together. Actually - that was a 
> while back now - he needs prompting ... :>
> 
> .vortex
> 
> On Tuesday 02 October 2001  2:25 pm, Drew wrote:
> > http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1436/byt20010926s0003/1001_bar.html
> >
> > this guy has a 70+ user freenet in israel, wished he gave more info, but
> > cool nonetheless. good to see that this idea actually *will* work with a
> > lot of people.
> >
> >
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