<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jan 16, 2010, at 9:25 PM, marc fawzi wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br></div><div>I just found this list of supported OpenWrt hardware:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://nuwiki.openwrt.org/toh/start">http://nuwiki.openwrt.org/toh/start</a> <div><br></div><div>But what is the problem with wanting to enhance the reception by using an amplifier like this one? <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><a href="http://www.danets.com/turbotenna/turbotenna%20009xt.php" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">http://www.danets.com/turbotenna/turbotenna%20009xt.php</a></span></div>
<div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>The problem is that you disturb everyone else. And that is against the idea of a mesh. At the end you start a race who sends "louder" and then at some point all stations "scream" at each other. This results in high noise for everybody but no bandwidth.</div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>I assume the higher the reception s/n the wider the coverage area per node (assuming you pick hardware that has sufficiently high Tx power)</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div></div></blockquote>Think: many small mesh nodes which whisper. Much more effective re-use of shared spectrum.</div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">
</span></font></div><div><a href="http://www.danets.com/turbotenna/turbotenna%20009xt.php" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); "></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">In other words, what is wrong with wanting to boost both transmit and receive signals (above and beyond what the hardware is capable of)?</span></font></div>
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</span></font><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Henning Rogge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hrogge@googlemail.com">hrogge@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Am Samstag 16 Januar 2010 21:05:54 schrieb Mitar:<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> Hi!<br>
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> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 8:54 PM, marc fawzi <<a href="mailto:marc.fawzi@gmail.com">marc.fawzi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > I'm limited to the WRT54-GL because I thought that's the only model that<br>
> > OLSR has been ported to .... ?<br>
><br>
> Where you got this? If it runs (more or less standard) Linux it runs<br>
> OLSR. So for example wherever you can put OpenWrt you can have OLSR.<br>
> (Limited by CPU and memory of course and other similar limitations.)<br>
</div></div>Let's not forget that OLSRd runs on BSD, Win32 and OSx.<br>
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Henning Rogge<br>
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