[Cialug] wireless mesh network

[David Champion]

Tim Perdue wrote:
> Dave Weis wrote:
> 
>> Would any list members we willing to host a Meraki in their house to 
>> extend a wireless network, particularly the ones in West Des Moines? 
>> Bandwidth would be provided and you can use a lower speed for free 
>> yourself or purchase a higher speed. Email me offlist and I'll 
>> probably ask you a few more questions.
> 
> Dave, what's the performance like on these? I would think it would add 
> extra hops, interference possibilities, etc and be relatively slow?

There is going to be some network degredation depending on how many hops 
away you are. Some mesh networks have ways around this... not sure 
exactly how Meraki handles it. Here's a wikipedia article that gives an 
overview of how mesh networks work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesh_network

-dc