Whats' a good product for a high-density Wireless network setup?

Dave Taht dave.taht at gmail.com
Sun Jun 21 07:00:45 UTC 2015


On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 11:45 PM, Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote:
>> So....ultimately,  what's the answer?  A huge number of low cost,  low
>> power WAPs?  Eager readers want to know.   :)
>
> what was unclear about the following?

+1

> Randy Bush wrote:
>> From: Randy Bush <randy at psg.com>
>> Subject: Re: Whats' a good product for a high-density Wireless network setup?
>> To: Mike Lyon <mike.lyon at gmail.com>
>> Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog at nanog.org>
>> Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2015 08:20:33 +0900
>> ...
>> having been in the back seat for many deployments over the years with
>> all sorts of kit, i have seen great and reliable pretty large
>> deployments of all of the above (well, xirrus only once).  i have seen
>> embarrassing messes with all of the above.  i have concluded that the
>> critical component is the engineer.

It is totally possible to build a good wifi setup if you know what
you're doing.

David Lang regularly builds a good setup out of commodity parts and
openwrt at SCALE, and talks to the basic issues here:

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/lisa12/lisa12-final-32.pdf

I wish we had more clued people working on wifi. And that conference
organizers/hotels/corps/institutions realized that having people that
knew what they were doing on the wifi was a valuable service for geeky
conferences, at least.

SCALE2015 went excellently, I'm told.

I have some measurements of the nanog network from the SF conference
this past month. pretty terrrible...

-- 
Dave Täht
worldwide bufferbloat report:
http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/results/bufferbloat
And:
What will it take to vastly improve wifi for everyone?
https://plus.google.com/u/0/explore/makewififast



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