Re: [44net] 44Net Digest, Vol 3, Issue 24

<snip> Here in Green Bay, WI a few of us have been messing with point to point 802.11 since 1999. Sadly there isn't enough interest (mostly due to the average ham club members age I suspect), for it to advance much beyond that... so far. Although I have finally pulled some strings for commercial tower space come spring. Without one end up high (above the average 100 foot trees), you need amplifiers to go anywhere, or a MESH node every couple miles? 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? 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. 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. More so, if bouncing off say a water tower actually is doable. Steve, KB9MWR