NoCarrier

I want to buy a new house and it's the only "High speed" internet available in that area..

Is it good, fast?

They say it's up to 5mpbs but I'm more worried about the latency. I play a lot of online games.

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Jon2

Basically its where there is lots of wireless routers that kinda work together to get you the best connection and speed...Each router is running the mesh software...

Jon

Screaming

it should be ok dude

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Jon2

"If you?ve not yet had the opportunity to become acquainted with wireless meshes, let me first provide a simple introduction. Imagine a network where every node is a router, and the connections between nodes are radios. That?s a wireless mesh ? a structure not unlike the Internet itself. The advantages of a wireless mesh, however, are numerous. For example, backhaul can be dynamically provisioned. In a typical large-scale (metro-area or WLAN-based) mesh, we can cover a very large geographic area quickly because there?s very little wire to install. Over time, as backhaul traffic begins to compete with user traffic (they will likely compete for the same radio bandwidth, but, granted, we could use different radio spectrum for backhaul), we can add wired backhaul ? when we?ll likely have the customer base and cash flow to do so. Meshes let us hit the ground running, and cheaply. Moreover, meshes can exhibit a high degree of fault-tolerance, and support non-line-of-sight configurations that are difficult with traditional bridged links.

An interesting property of wireless meshes relates to capacity - the more mesh nodes we have the more total network capacity is available. This is a bit counterintuitive, so let me explain. Each node in a wireless mesh represents an additional place where a connection can be made. Because connections between mesh nodes are dynamic (unlike wired networks), we can use this capacity on a moment-by-moment basis, finding the best path dynamically (and note we usually define ?best? as ?shortest? in terms of time). More nodes give the data more places to go.

But, of course, the key to all of this is routing protocols, and each mesh network vendor jealously guards their intellectual property here. One needs to make optimal routing decisions at each moment, often based on type of traffic and the quality of service required. Voice traffic is a good example ? too many hops through the mesh, and the latency builds until we soon have an unintelligible call. It?s not hard, however, to design wireless meshes of literally any size that have the necessary performance characteristics to meet essentially any application requirement. One wonders if meshes might in fact one day replace traditional cellular architectures. I think there?s a good possibility that they will at least augment these mainstays of the wireless world.

Meshes can be used to implement the infrastructure part of a wireless network, or the client side, or both. We can even build hybrid meshes where there is no longer a clear distinction between infrastructure and client. Routing can be static and deterministic or adaptive and self-organizing. Meshes can range in size from metro-area (or even larger) down to what we?ve been calling micromeshes. These are based on very inexpensive radios, usually with fairly low throughput and fairly limited range, but great battery life. Micromeshes are useful in telemetry and control applications, and sensor-based mesh networks are now a hot topic in industrial control and automation. We see other commercial and consumer applications on the horizon as well.

It?s the fundamental flexibility of mesh-based wireless networks that will lead to their rapid adoption and ultimate success, if not pervasiveness. You?ll be hearing a lot about meshes of all forms ? Wi-Fi meshes for public WLAN access, sensor networks, voice-oriented meshes, and much more. Are meshes the future of wireless? Well, no, not the whole future, but a really big part of it nonetheless."

Jon

NoCarrier

Thanks.

It was the last thing I needed to know before making an offer on the house.

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