What gear was used at the last NANOG in SF? Was it indeed Xirrus? -Mike
On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 12:00 AM, Dave Taht <dave.t...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 11:45 PM, Randy Bush <ra...@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 <ra...@psg.com> > >> Subject: Re: Whats' a good product for a high-density Wireless network > setup? > >> To: Mike Lyon <mike.l...@gmail.com> > >> Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@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 > -- Mike Lyon 408-621-4826 mike.l...@gmail.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/mlyon
