On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 11:45 PM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
So....ultimately, what's the answer? A huge number of low cost, low power WAPs? Eager readers want to know. :)
what was unclear about the following?
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Randy Bush wrote:
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Subject: Re: Whats' a good product for a high-density Wireless network setup? To: Mike Lyon <mike.lyon@gmail.com> Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org> Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2015 08:20:33 +0900 ... having been in the back seat for many deployments over the years with all sorts of kit, i have seen great and reliable pretty large deployments of all of the above (well, xirrus only once). i have seen embarrassing messes with all of the above. i have concluded that the critical component is the engineer.
It is totally possible to build a good wifi setup if you know what you're doing. David Lang regularly builds a good setup out of commodity parts and openwrt at SCALE, and talks to the basic issues here: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/lisa12/lisa12-final-32.pdf I wish we had more clued people working on wifi. And that conference organizers/hotels/corps/institutions realized that having people that knew what they were doing on the wifi was a valuable service for geeky conferences, at least. SCALE2015 went excellently, I'm told. I have some measurements of the nanog network from the SF conference this past month. pretty terrrible... -- Dave Täht worldwide bufferbloat report: http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/results/bufferbloat And: What will it take to vastly improve wifi for everyone? https://plus.google.com/u/0/explore/makewififast