[Bloat] sigcomm wifi

Steinar H. Gunderson sgunderson at bigfoot.com
Fri Aug 22 19:56:30 EDT 2014


On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 04:52:55PM -0700, David Lang wrote:
> that depends on how many APs you put in place. you really should be
> trying to cover the area with 5GHz, and since you have so many more
> channels available, you can afford to use more power on 5GHs and
> give each AP a bigger footprint.

Sure. But there are situations where this isn't possible for a variety of
reasons, in particular when your area starts getting fuzzy (ie., for a
university campus, how far outdoor do you want to support).

>> I've tested this in the real world. It works really well. (It's also pretty
>> much standard practice in high-density Wi-Fi, from what I've been told.)
> Ok, then I'm back to "how can I do this on OpenWRT"? :-)

No idea there, sorry.

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