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

[Toke Høiland-Jørgensen]

Sebastian Moeller <moeller0 at gmx.de> writes:

> Ho Toke,
>
>> On Jun 13, 2018, at 15:24, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk> wrote:
>> 
>> 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
>
> 	Just consider this to be a cheap* way to create a favorable RF
> 	environment for the signals ;)

Oh, I am well aware of this:
https://blog.tohojo.dk/2017/11/building-a-wireless-testbed-with-wires.html

-Toke