[Olsr-users] Meraki's distance display - very nice

[Derek C]

Hi Henning,

I thought that perhaps with dynamic ACK (like in the Ubiquity HAL for
madwifi) it might be possible to estimate the distance based on the
automatic timings.

Still though - Meraki have it working now (down to metres) and its nice to
look at - it seems quite accurate although I haven't actually taken to
pacing out the distances between known nodes.

Derek


On Sun, September 28, 2008 10:10 pm, Henning Rogge wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 19:05, Derek C <(spam-protected)> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>> I've been getting along fine developing with OLSRd (after some getting
>> used to it in the beginning).
>>
>> I have a few networks with Meraki equipment (100 nodes maybe).  Meraki
>> have gone through a few upgrades on their management "dashboard" website
>>  and added features along the way.
>>
>> It's one feature that is very nice - its able to slow the distance (in
>> metres) between a node and a neighbour.
>>
>> Do you think they do this with dynamic ACK in their atheros driver?  or
>> is there some other way they could get the distance reading?
> It's not possible without both nodes sending their GPS position. You
> could visualize the signal strength or signal noise ratio, but both are no
> good measurement for distance.
>
> Henning
>
>
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Derek C
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