On 22 Jul 2006 20:13:26 GMT, phil-news-nospam@ipal.net wrote in
<e9u0t60nbg@news4.newsguy.com>:

>Basically, I've held a vision for years, well over a decade, of exactly
>how to do this kind of technology, marrying radio and networking. What
>we have today isn't too far from it. I would have used OFDM right from
>the beginning, merely varying the signaling rate to vary data rate, for
>example.

Prohibited by the FCC in the beginning. Oops. ;)

>If I were to make an access point device that actually would talk to
>another access point device, many problems would be solved that are today
>merely solved by having redundant equipment, often utilizing more channels
>than necessary. I've heard horror stories of multi-office buildings being
>overloaded on wireless, and now I can see why. Perhaps some of these
>issues are perptrated by the vendors themselves in an effort to drive up
>more sales by making people have to buy even more devices just to make
>their network function. ...

No, that's not it. As I wrote, there are good reasons. Go look them up
instead of just presuming you know better.

>So perhaps I really should look at 3rd party firmware, but not so much
>for just loading something someone has written to do something better,
>but perhaps to actually get into doing this writing myself. OpenWRT
>sure seems like a good starting point. Assuming the limitations where
>a device refuses to talk to another instance of itself is not in the
>hardware, maybe I really can make an access point talk to another access
>point, and make a client bridge really talk to another client bridge,
>and do both of these things in the same one device. It's all in the
>programming (hopefully).

Go for it. Best wishes. Sincerely.

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