[Olsr-users] G1 / Linksys WRT demo

[marc fawzi]

Thanks for the tips guys!

Mitar:

It's just an experiment to for now.

The experiment after it is to build some sort of tower based on the Linksys
WRT54GL but with higher power (will have to investigate ways to amplify the
output and reception thru some dumb signal booster) This maybe entirely
naive so you guys can tell me. The main question is can the signal from the
phone be extended by having it be detected by a powerful WRT54GL based
tower? This way the phones would have the LAN and air interfaces and my hope
is that they'd use the LAN interface if the signal from the tower is
detectable, and only use the air interface if it's not.

The big carrot is to be able to have some sort of ad-hoc mobile network in
operation on a limited scale in some section of some neighborhood in Seattle
and then start a local group for people (geeks) who are like me fascinated
by the concept of an ad-hoc mobile network.

Wifi maybe very power hungry right now but I have a feeling that it will
become less power hungry as the cpu, wifi and battery technologies evolve.

What do you guys think about the setup I'm thinking about?

Thanks :)

Marc
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Mitar <(spam-protected)> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I have also used OLSR on my Android phone (HTC Hero) but I installed
> Debian on it and used OLSR from there. It worked pretty well but it
> ran out of battery after few hours so it would probably not be
> possible to make multiple phones operating in this way and relaying
> traffic for each other in practice. But it is a nice experiment.
>
> I see two problems:
> - WiFi is not really good on mobile phones, its power and range seems
> to me quite limited so you could have problems with this (if you would
> like more than just an experiment)
> - as far as I know you cannot (official) Skype over WiFi on Android
> phones (it always uses phone call, just to their central), but I think
> there are SIP related applications, or:
>
> http://blog.truphone.com/2010/01/truphone-for-android-3-0.html
>
> (I have not tested any of those applications. Just what I have read
> around.)
>
> Please correct me if I am wrong.
>
>
> Mitar
>
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