Interesting Approach to spreading BB

Mr_Man

This article talks about a new (technology based) approach to spreading broadband, particularly in areas where there is a lack of coverage. Not sure how the likes of Eircom etc would react

M.

Capt'n Midnight

it's a MESH

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

There are more than 70 competing schemes for routing packets across mesh networks

watty

Not speedy..
You can put 802.11a as backbone/mesh WiFi and 802.11b/g as Base station WiFi in a PCengines Wrap board which has two Mini PCI card slots like in laptops.

The default free Linux (Pyramid) preconfigured for the 90 Euro Wrap board will do this.

It's nothing new nor a Broadband solution for Rural Ireland. It's for Yuppies in a City that can easily get their own ADSL etc.. It's just a hyped more commoditised cheaper version. Add on price of maybe a pair roof MMDS style dish to pickup a further node/ rebroadcast and roof Omni to locally share, etc and the "saving" of this evaporates.

Also in Urban areas etc you'd be hard put to find channel space for a Mesh today. It's all unregulated, shared spectrum with everything from Baby Alarms, to Video Senders and now 100m Class1 V2 Bluetooth (Bluetooth raise the noise level seen by WiFi)

Liam Byrne

Blimey - you mean this isn't a thread about how eirComReg are planning to attach broadband to all infected chickens coming in from the UK in the vague hope that it will spread ?

Altreab

Liam Byrne wrote:

Blimey - you mean this isn't a thread about how eirComReg are planning to attach broadband to all infected chickens coming in from the UK in the vague hope that it will spread ?

SPLUTTER...COUGH ......coffee on keyboard screen desk

jwt

Or we could revisit the "blimp" idea where we use tethered balloons to support wireless BB equipment.

Obviously we’ll have to attach some sort of chimney to ComRegs HQ for a free supply of hot air which should help reduce costs.

John

bealtine

jwt wrote:

Obviously we’ll have to attach some sort of chimney to ComRegs HQ for a free supply of hot air which should help reduce costs.

John

Better to turn it all into methane (us being all green and that)...

Altreab

bealtine wrote:

Better to turn it all into methane (us being all green and that)...

but isnt methane a highly flameable gas and wouldnt that be dangerous when "bright spark" Dempsey is around? ......mmm then again maybe not!!!

*walks myself to sinbin for off topic comments*

Marlow

watty wrote:

Also in Urban areas etc you'd be hard put to find channel space for a Mesh today. It's all unregulated, shared spectrum with everything from Baby Alarms, to Video Senders and now 100m Class1 V2 Bluetooth (Bluetooth raise the noise level seen by WiFi)

True.

In regards to rural broadband, the approach with mesh is useless. The clients are too wide-spread. Point to point and point to multipoint links with a redundant wireless infrastructure will do the job a lot better, as you can plan your bandwidth. Bandwidth planning on a mesh is very difficult.

Mesh in urban areas work, but it has to be some of the newer approaches liek the MIT Roofnet project, with click routing protocol, that are selfhealing etc. to cope with interference.

/Martin