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WiFi mesh test results



On Friday 15 April 2005 2:38 pm, Stephen Ronan wrote:
> A while ago I mentioned a test being conducted at Tent City in
> Boston of a WiFi mesh network relying on Free/Open Source routing
> software developed at MIT that runs via Linux. Here are the test
> results: http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/roofnet/doku.php?id=april2
>
> The software is being ported to Netgear WGT634U routers
> which are currently selling for under $100
> http://www.compuplus.com/insidepage.php3?refer=nextag&id=1002376
>
> Relatedly, there are a couple of forums and a WiFi summit coming
> up in Boston to examine whether the City can increase
> avaiability of free and low-cost Wifi citywide. See:
> http://www.bostonwag.org/summit/WiFiCommunityForumPressRelease_2.pdf
Maybe we could have a presentation on roof-net at one of our meetings.

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