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  From: Andrew Hill <list@fornax.net>
  To  : Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx>
  Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 10:45:21 +1030

Re: [was Re: AOL? or best ISP]

Andrew Reid wrote:
> Surely a well designed Wireless network would be able to grow to cope
> with such scalling issues. For example, if the antenna in area `A' is
> too full, install another one near by and move those (and new) clients
> over to that one.

Sure, you can do that, and my work has done it on occasion to have more
than one link to a single location. But there are only 10-odd channels
on the Lucent (and similar gear), and running on channels right next to
one another tends to decrease the SNR, so the number of antennas you can
put in the one spot is limited.

I'm not saying the Lucent gear is no good - it is good, and it works
well for some of the stuff my work has been doing, but it is limited,
and it's not going to be suitable for everything.

Cheers,
-- 
Andrew Hill

"Right now, I'd happily snort gunk from the sink if it would take
my brain somewhere away from here...." - JB

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