Re: [SLUG] Affordable wireless AP hardware to support 30+ connections

[Marghanita da Cruz <marghanita@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is distance/coverage an issue - access beyond classroom/school?
Have you checked out the D-Link range?

Marghanita

Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> 2011/11/3 Marghanita da Cruz <marghanita@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
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> > With the Sugar environment, do all laptops connect to the access point or is
> > it a mesh where traffic is relayed or tunnelled through one connection, and
> > it is only the internet requests that go through the access point?
>
> XOs can connect via ad-hoc or through an access point. Ad-hoc requires
> one XO to act as the hub for the others, but only scales to 5-10 XOs.
> An access point is needed beyond that. Once you get beyond 20-30 you
> should start thinking about implementing an XS School server, which
> runs an ejabberd instance to manage the XMPP (jabber) traffic.
>
> XO-1s had mesh capabilities in hardware, but this no longer applies in
> the XO-1.5 and XO-1.75. Ad-hoc has taken its place.
>
> Sridhar


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