[MLB-WIRELESS] MeshBox

[Ryan Abbenhuys]

I don't believe a true "Mesh" network is feasable.  The noise floor created
by the mesh increases to the point where the network is useless because
it's so slow.  The network effectively kills itself.


>The MeshBox itself seems to have a PCI client card in it, and the whole
>network is adhoc.  It implements it's own mesh routing protocol which is
>open source.  The maker seems to have envisioned its links to be
>omni-to-omni where possible.  Hmmmmmmmmm....  There is a "MeshBox X2"
>advertised on locustworld.com which has two PCI client cards in it, both
>of them with omnis attached, but it's 500 pounds - over $1000.
>
>I want to like this box but it doesn't look like we could use it on the
>MW network without a lot of add-ons and modification.  Which defeats the
>idea of having an out-of-the-box working router.
>
>WIANA was established by the MeshBoxes' maker, Jon Anderson, primarily
>for the purpose of handing out addresses to MeshBox users I believe.  It
>doesn't look like WIANA has much in the way of a democratic input
>process.  Communitywireless.org also doesn't seem to have any sort of
>democratic body running it.  There are no names or contact details for
>anyone in this organisation anywhere on the site.
>
>Jon Anderson certainly seems an enterprising fellow - all his websites
>are very slick and crammed with info.  But very impersonal I feel.  I am
>genuinely puzzled as to his motivations.
>
>Dan
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au
>[mailto:owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au] On Behalf Of Chris Samuel
>Sent: Monday, 1 December 2003 10:54 PM
>To: Melbourne Wirless
>Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] MeshBox
>
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>On Monday 01 Dec 2003 11:07 am, Dan Flett wrote:
>
>> Comments, opinions anyone?  Any implications here?
>
>There was an article about them in New Scientist a few months back, they
>look 
>like Epia VIA systems.  There's a good little intro to them at:
>
>	http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT5073214560.html
>
>which confirms they're mini-ITX boards and gives some of the history. It
>also 
>says:
>
>	With the MeshBox, what you have is a black box which you switch
>on and it
>	configures itself either as a router, a gateway, or as a
>wireless mesh
>	repeater. All configuration is automatic, but can be tweaked via
>the web at
>	www.wiana.org.
>
>Not quite sure what to make of WIANA (Wireless IANA), seems like they
>allocate 
>addresses for peer-to-peer links from the 1.0.0.0/8 subnet and sign
>traffic 
>(possibly using IPSEC).
>
>Very odd..
>
>cheers,
>Chris
>- -- 
> Chris Samuel  :  http://csamuel.org/  :  Melbourne, VIC
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