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Wireless Mesh

Saturday, April 08, 2006

New Node break record distance

As I was working on the Solar MeshAP I received a call to put up a new Node located about 1.3 Miles or about 1.8 KM away from the nearest MeshAP. The closest node was only 100 m away but due to obstruction of two large building I had to connect it the long way around. Installation went pretty smoothly and new Mesh node connected. Since it was located on the 19th floor and the nodes that connected to them are on hill and on the 7th floor it amazing that I received an 11mbps connection. The new node is saturated with noise I counted over 50 Wi-fi connections and also I noticed that between the new connection there is another 50 Wi-fi connection.

I amazed how well Locustworld OS software works with my equipment. I using a standard 8 dbi antenna with 200 mW radio card. Wow the performance is excellent.

You can see the new connection as it is most southern connection please see map. The new meshAP is located an apartment complex. If you switch to Satellite mode you can see the two building blocking the connection.

I was amazed when the frenzel zone is not obscured that connection can be that fantastic at that distance in a noisy environment. Way to go Locustworld!

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