[MLB-WIRELESS] Response to meshing

[Brenden Cooper]

The Hardware is only that hardware and is only as good as the software that
is driving it.
Yes its using Karlnet Bridges, no its not depending on it.
We don't have any nodes at the NAB and there are many, but they do run form
many data sources.

It funny that you say a colleague has spoken to you about the network as we
don't discuss it until now to get the message straight.

Our network is very different and smart, very smart, it knows when there is
a problem and can fix it on the fly.
The nodes are separate but act as one and we aren't going to tell you how it
works.
But it works very well.

Thanks
Brenden Cooper
Megalink Aust Pty Ltd
www.megalink.com.au



-----Original Message-----
From: netwiz at melbwireless.dyndns.org
[mailto:netwiz at melbwireless.dyndns.org]On Behalf Of Jason Hecker
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 10:27 PM
To: melbwireless at melbwireless.dyndns.org
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Response to meshing



> >From our experience there is problems when you forward packets via a
single
>Node, there will be traffic problems when the network is under pressure,
and
>the node will get to the stage of not being able to respond to the
requests.

I fear this would happen if Melbwireless depended on too few central nodes
and doesn't allow some sort of load sharing between access points.

>There is no center node as suggested on the network and all nodes load
share
>the total network data, because of this we don't nor will we have the
>problems that Jason has mentioned.

Ah, I think a colleague of yours explained to me that there were several
central nodes, namely NAB building, somewhere out northeast and south.  No
mention was made of node load balancing so I inferred that there was a
dependancy for all the clients to access the network in a star fashion from
around town without forwarding the packets from others.

>The Megalink Network also doesn't use 802.11b which was mentioned, which
>means that it doesn't suffer from the same problems that 802.11b has.

Ah, OK.  So is it using 802.11b hardware with the optimised system from
Karlnet?

>You always find that people will often make comments about things that they
>no very little about.

Well, how about discussing with us how your network operates?  I'm keen to
know.  Or some hyperlinks that go in depth about the technology?  We need
all the help we can get.


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