[Make-wifi-fast] mesh deployment with ath9k driver changes

[Toke Høiland-Jørgensen]

Pete Heist <pete at eventide.io> writes:

> Trying one thing at a time, as legacy_rates=‘1’ didn’t do anything
> noticeable, which is not surprising when we probably don’t have many
> ‘b' devices connecting. We hit 4.9s ping times this morning, good
> work. :)
>
> Even though isolation couldn’t be turned on in the admin interface
> (because it says it can’t do it when bridging to a VLAN, for some
> reason), I was able to enable isolation for both SSIDs and it still
> seems to work, so that’s the change as of now:
>
> wireless.ap0_1.isolate='1'
> wireless.ap0_2.isolate=‘1’
>
> Before I could ping between clients, and now I can’t, so apparently
> isolation is doing what it should. The next test will be tonight.
>
> I’m still waiting for the digging / cabling project to happen, which
> is what I expect to bring the biggest benefit. Again, that will add a
> new cabled AP which will serve as a gateway for cabin 12 and split
> cabins 12 and 20. This should also improve the signal to 12 vastly,
> which is one of the most loaded APs and currently only has RSSI -71 /
> MCS 5 or 6 to its parent AP, now that the leaves are full on the
> trees.

How to improve WiFi? Run cables! :D

-Toke