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Written by diablo75 the 29 Feb 08 at 00:45.
Category: Internet & Networking.
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Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
This is what's being used in the OLPC's, which allow small villages to essentially build their own wireless mesh networking infrastructure that works and shares traffic overhead (IEEE 802.11s). You could imagine having a little utility on your Ubuntu PC that would scan for such wireless mesh networks, allow you to connect, act as a server/client node, share files, chat, and the sky is pretty much the limit from there. People could begin hosting their own webpages from their PC for free, using nothing but radio waves.
If you utilize the bandwidth and full-duplex potential of 802.11n wireless networking, you could create large decentralized mesh networks that could be very fast, much faster than cable Internet access.
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Wulfrunner wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 00:47
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This could be fantastic for University environments!
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jsnow wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 01:16
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I imagine 802.11s support might be difficult for many wireless cards to support (OLPC has the advantage of homogeneous hardware), but providing OLSR as an option in the wireless configuration gui tool (and providing a sane, scalable, and tested configuration by default - I haven't installed olsrd from apt, so I don't know if this is already the case) would be an easily-attainable goal, and it would be very useful to some people.
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bradbrownjr wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 20:01
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It'd be great for meetings or conferences where wireless is unavailable, but you want to share something with your colleagues, be it a presentation or files.
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jsnow wrote on the 5 Mar 08 at 06:01
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I've used OLSR in a small network and it works pretty well. The nice thing about it is there's an OLSR package for OpenWRT, which runs on a lot of consumer-grade 802.11g routers. (I have five of them, at the moment, just from local garage sales.) Being able to easily add an ubuntu box to a mesh of OLSR-enabled WRT54Gs would be very nice.
The availability of mesh routing as a standard option in a widely-used operating system would do wonders for increasing the popularity of mesh routing in general.
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priegog wrote on the 16 Mar 08 at 16:56
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Agreed. On the technical side, it wouldn't be able to happen for many wireless cards (those that use ndiswrapper or incomplete drivers), as a very low level access must be achieved, but for those cards that do, having an option in network manager to create, search for and join mesh networks would be awesome. For university settings specially as someone said ealier. Coupled with projects like avahi and having applications (such as IM clients, and torrent programs) being written to use this all to their advantage, I think this is the road the future internet will take.
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drinkypoo wrote on the 9 May 08 at 18:35
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the XO has a Marvell mesh-networking AP in it. Anyone know where you can buy a device with one of those + 1 ethernet? XOs are too expensive to use for routers right now :)
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ay wrote on the 11 May 08 at 21:03
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I don't think that there are any off the shelf devices that you can buy with an '8388 in them. As I recall, the XBox WiFi adapter has an older version that may or may not be able to run the XO's 8388 firmware. Other than that, you can grab a Zydas-based USB dongle right now, install compat-wireless, and use mesh out of the box.
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