[Olsr-dev] does the current Debian olsrd.conf work with a mesh?

[Henning Rogge]

If you see lots of APs on 6, 80% of the spectrum of channel 7 are
blocked by them.

Thats why everyone is using 1/6/11. Because the channels overlap that much.

Henning

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner
<(spam-protected)> wrote:
>
> On Jun 29, 2012, at 4:27 AM, Manuel Munz wrote:
>
>> On 28.06.2012 21:18, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>>> BSSID: cc:cc:cc:cc:cc:cc
>>
>> This BSSID is not correct if you look at  IEEE 802.11, Section 7.1.3.3.3
>> and Section 11.1.3. It should be a locally administered mac:
>>
>> The value of this field in an IBSS is a locally administered IEEE MAC
>> address formed from a 46-bit random
>> number generated according to the procedure defined in 11.1.3. The
>> individual/group bit of the address is set
>> to 0. The universal/local bit of the address is set to 1. This mechanism
>> is used to provide a high probability of
>> selecting a unique BSSID.[1]
>>
>> In most cases it works if you don't follow that standard, but i've heard
>> of some cases where this has caused problems.
>
> Ah, ok about about ee:ee:ee:ee:ee:ee then?
>
>> Also i'd like to join Daniel in asking why channel 7?
>
>
> Maybe I'm biased by being in NYC, but whenever I do a scan, there are lots of APs on 1, 6, and, 11, quite a few between 1 and 6 and the least between 6 and 11.  But still quite a lot on 11.  So 7 seems to me the emptiest part.  This is for impromptu meshes, not a citywide mesh.
>
> This is a quick scan from right now, of me sitting at my desk:
>
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