[MLB-WIRELESS] GLL and GLO FOund GHO

[darrend at ndpgroup.com.au]

Thanks Ryan, couldn't have said it better myself.
Our (juz and myself) motivation to setup NodeGHO was to promote the growth
of other AP's and to provide a point of connectivity between them.
As such, it will be closed to public access in the near future, primarily
to maintain performance, but also to avoid laziness where every client node
in Melbourne is pointing at the mountain! Like Ryan said, we may make some
exceptions to this under the right circumstances.
I see GHO's role in the MW network to be more of a short term solution
until there are multiple other routes between regions. Whats the point of
creating a city-wide network that is reliant on one node to function?

Having said all that, if in the future we are able to host multiple AP's on
the mountain, we may have one dedicated to client node access.

Darren Dreis
Vice President
Melbourne Wireless Inc.
vicepresident at wireless.org.au
http://www.wireless.org.au




                                                                                                                                             
                      "Ryan Abbenhuys"                                                                                                       
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I believe (and it's not up to me ultimately), that we want to restrict it
to 1 uplink from as many major active clusters as possible.  This is a way
to fill in links between active groups that would otherwise take years to
happen by any other means.

Of course bandwidth is the prime concern, when the WAfreenet boys started
the HillsHub, I believe that got slower and slower as more people connected
until people got sick of the slow speed and started to move things along in
their own areas so as not to rely on the HillsHub.

I have every confidence that we will go through exactly the same scenario
sooner or later.

Of course there will be those poor souls in remote locations with poor LOS,
nobody to connect to but willing to offer a lot to the group.  It would be
nice if these sorts of people could be allowed an exemption based on an
assessment.

I'd imagine the group of people managing GHO will have to assess each
proposed connection on its merits to decide, based on the overall
performance hit and benefit to the network, whether to allow it to connect
to GHO.


>Is it safe to presume this won't occur until bandwidth becomes a problem?
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>Ben.
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