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> Although I have finally pulled some strings for commercial tower space
> come spring.
Good work!
> Without one end up high (above the average 100 foot
> trees),
No. If you have 100 foot trees, you can't run long distance outdoor 802.11
> you need amplifiers to go anywhere, or a MESH node every
> couple miles?
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No, and no.
So far I have not done anything with Mesh, and it sort of makes sense
> for the distance/propagation delima.. Till I think, wait a second,
> 802.11 is still half duplex, so when you make a (metric) hop using a
> mesh topology, aren't you effectively cutting your bandwidth in half?
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And in half again, and again with each new node.
So there is more to this than throw a bunch of nodes out there.
> (bandwidth and hidden transmitter stuff), there is just no easy way
> around a decently designed network.. backbones! Then there is the oh,
> well we want to expand the network this way (something not in the
> original plan), and how to make the subnet and routes all work, short
> of re-addressing everything.
>
You got it in one! Please someone please package this text inside
something nice and solid, like a baseball bat, so we can whack the next
person with who has this idea.
> I watched the HamWAN DCC video.. and I have often thought about 5 GHz
> Mikrotik Groove as they way I'd go if I were to invest in equipment
> again.
No, stick with multi-chain polling stuff, like the MIMO AirMAX, and get
200mbit plus symbol rates, and solid 90mbit ACTUAL throughput.
> More so, if bouncing off say a water tower actually is doable.
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No, stick with nice clear line-of-sight paths for infrastructure.
By all means, play with things as an experiment, but puhleeeaze don't hide
such a catastrophe inside a seemingly functional network, or you will bring
the rest of the network to its' knees.
> Whoever has IP 44.12.3.97, please stop sending UDP 5678 to 255.255.255.255.
> I'm getting this every single minute.
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Hehe, a single UDP every minute.. If that was over the old 1200 digipeated
network it'd DDOS the entire network! lol
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