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

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Everywhere I measure in NYC, the whole band is full, i.e. any given AP is overlapping multiple other APs.  The area around 7-8 is least full.

.hc

On Jun 29, 2012, at 11:24 AM, Henning Rogge wrote:

> 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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