On 2015-06-02 22:04, Yeoh Chun-Yeow wrote:
On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 8:31 AM, Bob Copeland via Devel
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 04:08:37PM -0300, Tim J via Devel wrote:
I'm wondering if a couple dual band routers, hopefully the same
model, would
work with reasonable speeds. I'm thinking that if the 5.8ghz radios
were
meshed and bridged to the 2.4 radios in AP mode that would do the
trick.
Potentially there would be multiple hops (2-4) involved I put an AP
in the
detached garage. Can anyone give me some insight on whether this is
feasible
to do?
With the right chips on board (say, dual ath9k) this is definitely
realizable. I have a similar setup here. You can use one band for
the
mesh and the other band for the AP. You probably wouldn't want to
stream video over more than a few hops but it should be fine in
general.
WRT54G with broadcom will not work as far as I know. DIR-825 should
work
(I have one of those with OpenWRT on it, but not using it in a mesh
today.)
The newer TP-Link APs with ath10k and ath9k are pretty nice and very
cheap.
There's no upstream support for mesh on ath10k yet, but it can be made
to
work. Or you could run the AP on the 5G and mesh on 2G.
I would prefer disable encryption if the hardware can only support SW
crypto. Also, 2 hops away should be alright but 3 or 4 hops away may a
bit challenging if you have high demand on throughput.
I may suggest that you mix and match with wireless mesh and wired to
reduce the number of "mesh" hops. Dual radios (one AP and one mesh)
will always be better.
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Chun-Yeow
Thank you Bob and Chun-Yeoh for the feedback.
Chun-Yeoh, isn't authsae software crypt ?
Tim
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