Hop-loss would likely reduce available bandwidth below a usable threshold, at least on single radio nodes.<div><br></div><div>Where this threshold lies of course varies with the actual deployment, but I would gather any mesh topology involving 3, 4, 5 five hops maximum approaches this limit.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:24 PM, L. Aaron Kaplan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aaron@lo-res.org">aaron@lo-res.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br><div><div class="im"><div><br></div></div>We once did a real world deployment test by routing together multiple wireless community networks.</div><div>We reached more than 1000 nodes. Most of them were 200MHz Linksys -style devices.</div>
<div>No big impact. </div><div><br></div><div>To be honest, I don't know how large we can grow right now, but I would assume a couple of </div><div>thousand nodes in a single cloud.</div><div>At some point you need to segment of course, but we have not reached that limit yet.</div>
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