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Wireless Mesh

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Testing Fractals

So from the Icicles in my enclosurer back to Fractals, I replace the NEMA 4 enclosurer with a WRAP board which is one of my older units that got hit by lightning. Other than the power supply it still works, but for how long? When I put the node up I created a perfect mesh. All nodes could mesh with each other. The differences were that some had various dbi’s between each node but some how it worked. It was really neat to see everything meshing and working together. The last time I saw this was in my lab. So to see it actually work was great. When I look at it now with using Fractals it may sense and tried to keep it working this way. I knew that this perfect mesh connection would not hold up because one of the distances from uplink node to the new node had a building, trees and was not put at the optimum height for clean Fresno effect. So I knew I would have to optimize the mesh nodes to work with each other. I left it a lone for less than 24 hours and it did start to optimize it self and again the problem occur that the link was flakey (see Stability of the Mesh.) When shape the connection of the nodes similar method I used for optimizing the mesh it became instantly rock solid. Now this is the same setup but different hardware. I not sure if the Fractals or not but it seems to fit Fractal equation. Yet again, using Fractal method gave me insight to deployment. Who knew, the wireless mesh could benefit from Fractals.

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