An AP per room/area, reducing the tx power (beacon range) has been my approach and has scaled very well. It does require some wires to each AP but I find that paying an electrician to run some quality wiring to things that are to remain stationary has been well worth the cost.
just my $0.02, Bob On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 1:10 PM, David Lang <da...@lang.hm> wrote: > Well, just using the 5GHz DFS channels in 80MHz or 160 MHz wide chunks > would be a huge improvement, not many people are using them (yet), and the > wide channels let you get a lot of data out at once. If everything is > within a good range of the AP, this would work pretty well. If you end up > needing multiple APs, or you have many stations, I expect that you will be > better off with more APs at lower power, each using different channels. > > David Lang > > > > > On Thu, 23 Jun 2016, Bob McMahon wrote: > > Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 12:55:19 -0700 >> From: Bob McMahon <bob.mcma...@broadcom.com> >> To: Dave Taht <dave.t...@gmail.com> >> Cc: make-wifi-f...@lists.bufferbloat.net, >> "cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net" >> <cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net> >> Subject: Re: [Make-wifi-fast] more well funded attempts showing market >> demand >> for better wifi >> >> >> hmm, I'm skeptical. To use multiple carriers simultaneously is difficult >> per RF issues. Even if that is somehow resolved, to increase throughput >> usually requires some form of channel bonding, i.e. needed on both sides, >> and brings in issues with preserving frame ordering. If this is just >> channel hopping, that needs coordination between both sides (and isn't >> simultaneous, possibly costing more than any potential gain.) An AP only >> solution can use channel switch announcements (CSA) but there is a cost to >> those as well. >> >> I guess don't see any break though here and the marketing on the site >> seems >> to indicate something beyond physics, at least the physics that I >> understand. Always willing to learn and be corrected if I'm >> misunderstanding things. >> >> Bob >> >> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Dave Taht <dave.t...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Dave Taht <dave.t...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/portalwifi/portal-turbocharged-wifi?ref=backerkit >>> >>>> >>>> "Portal is the first and only router specifically engineered to cut >>>> through and avoid congestion, delivering consistent, high-performance >>>> WiFi with greater coverage throughout your home. >>>> >>>> Its proprietary spectrum turbocharger technology provides access to >>>> 300% more of the radio airwaves than any other router, improving >>>> performance by as much as 300x, and range and coverage by as much as >>>> 2x in crowded settings, such as city homes and multi-unit apartments" >>>> >>>> It sounds like they are promising working DFS support. >>>> >>> >>> It's not clear what chipset they are using (they are claiming wave2) - >>> but they are at least publicly claiming to be using openwrt. So I >>> threw in enough to order one for september, just so I could comment on >>> their kickstarter page. :) >>> >>> I'd have loved to have got in earlier (early shipments are this month >>> apparently), but those were sold out. >>> >>> >>> >>> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/portalwifi/portal-turbocharged-wifi/comments >>> >>> >>> >>>> -- >>>> Dave Täht >>>> Let's go make home routers and wifi faster! With better software! >>>> http://blog.cerowrt.org >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Dave Täht >>> Let's go make home routers and wifi faster! With better software! >>> http://blog.cerowrt.org >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Make-wifi-fast mailing list >>> make-wifi-f...@lists.bufferbloat.net >>> https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/make-wifi-fast >>> >>> > _______________________________________________ > Make-wifi-fast mailing list > make-wifi-f...@lists.bufferbloat.net > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/make-wifi-fast > >
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