[OLSR-users] Re: OLSRd configuration with multiple channels

[Benjamin Henrion]

Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa <(spam-protected)> [050814]:
> Hi!
> 
> aaron wrote:
> 
> >Jose,
> >
> > at least in the EU 802.11a seems to be ok.. because they allowed for 
> >1Watt outdoor (but stay away from radars)
> >So I _guess_ that 802.11a should be really ok actually. But I would be
> >happy if anybody has some more experience on it.
> > 
> >
> 
> I live in Venezuela, and they allow 1W Isotropic Radiated Power for 
> 802.11a/b/g (wich almost no one use to respect).
> 
> But that's not the problem, The problem is that I would need 802.11a (I 
> haven't found any) amplifiers, and the amplifiers use to cost more than 
> a network card.
> 
> > 
> >
> >>I thought to use channel 1 and 4 because the channels from 6,8 and 10 
> >>are all used by people that must be crazy: they are using 1W amplifiers 
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >Another experience: if people don't use channels 1-4 then
> >maybe there is a reason for it: bad SNR ;-)
> > 
> >
> 
> Well, I'm using channel 2 because no one else is there, and I have a 
> -92dB noise level. I had -90 noise level in the channel 9 (because of 
> these high power networks), I found that these networks were there after 
> I got tired of experiencing outages, then I installed kismet and took a 
> look at the air, and I found that I had one network in the channel 8 and 
> the other in the 10 (I was using channel 9), then I moved to channel 2.
> 
> But I think that I should do a wardriving in the city in order to 
> evaluate the band usage.

Yet another reason to use Waveguides in Hpol: 95% of the time, all
antennas used are in Vpol.

So you can win some dbs and a better SNR there.

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Benjamin Henrion <(spam-protected)>
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