[MLB-WIRELESS] 802.11g Starts Answering WLAN Range Questions

[Jason Clarke]

Agreed.

My thought is that we scout out an area that can be used for all the tests.
Some sort of control (heh) for the experiments.

Finding a park / road / firebreak / oval for the open air. Out in the outer
Burbs (Dandenong / 35-40km from CBD) isn't a problem.. Getting there is.

Finding a building for internal testing.

Heck, finding a pond / lake (Albert Park Lake?) / Ocean for testing over
water.

Then we could ask the people in the ACT to test in bad weather :-)

J
----- Original Message -----
From: "paul van den bergen" <pvandenbergen at swin.edu.au>
To: "melbwireless" <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 9:51 AM
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] 802.11g Starts Answering WLAN Range Questions


> On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 10:43 pm, Matt Pearce wrote:
> > Very interesting reading.  One thing I did manage to extrapolate from
the
> > whole lot is that the xMbps is really a useless figure.  I wonder if
there
> > is anyway to force the companies that make all the gear to rate actual
> > kB/sec at set gains so we could actually sort through all the crap and
> > really get to the crux of the matter without having to buy first ??
> snip
> >
> > my 2 cents, anyone care to comment ??
>
> yeah, I will.
>
> it seems to me that legislation, etc. are a poor tool for this.  much more
> useful would be to do the experiments with actual equipment and see what
we
> get.  then publish the data on the melb wireless website for everyone to
see.
> at veryleast this will attract attention to community wireless...
>
> I quite liked the info posted recently showing the speed-distribution map
for
> an office space.  something like that is what I have in mind, though
perhaps
> not so detailed...
>
> e.g.
> maker/model
> room to room in standard office space (by meter or number of rooms)
> clear space distance (1m, 2m, 5m, 10m, 20m, 50m, 100m, 200m, 500m)
> different antennas - inbuilt, 2dBi omni, 8dBi omni, 24 dBi conifer.
> repeat a statistical number of times (*grin*)
> compare results to stated specs.
>
> sounds like a reasonable communitee project to me...
>
> --
> Dr Paul van den Bergen
> Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures
> caia.swin.edu.au
> pvandenbergen at swin.edu.au
> IM:bulwynkl2002
> would somebody get this big walking carpet out of my way?
>
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