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

[Mike Lyon <mike.lyon () gmail com>]

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.taht () gmail com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 11:45 PM, Randy Bush <randy () 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 () psg com>
> > > Subject: Re: Whats' a good product for a high-density Wireless network
> setup?
> > > To: Mike Lyon <mike.lyon () 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



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