[Ham-80211] Why? (was Handoff between access point? )

[Alex Fraser]

Daron,
The key  phrase was  

"Possible technically, but not doable at this time by hams."


I also have some paid networking experience. Rollouts! Upgrades!  Rah rah rah!

How do you build and maintain a WAN with $0 funding and NO paid staff?

How have you done this?

Could you give an example? 

Most important, if you did create and maintain this free network, then I must ask why? What made you do it?

Is the need to experiment enough?




Daron J. Wilson wrote:

>>Possible technically, but not doable at this time by hams.  I don't
>>think this is done by any part 15 groups either.   You would have to
>>jump through some hoops to do it commercially, profit might be a
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>problem!
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>I've done it years ago with the Breezecom line of Access Points, several
>times in a campus environment (specifically water treatment plants)
>where the operators used pen tablet computers and little carts to drive
>around the facility.  Not doable?  Maybe not by you, but it certainly is
>doable.
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>>    Technical of course is one issue, but political is another not
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>>discussed.  Who would set up this network? Would it be an existing
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>club?
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>>Or perhaps an association of clubs? Would a new department of the
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>>repeater coordinating committee be needed?  Spontaneous small
>>associations of  experimenters might be able to do a network locally,
>>but would have to evolve to meet the manning requirements of a larger
>>network. BTW I do think a small group could do it, but of course not
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>>any length of time. Do you think a small spark could start a prairie
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>fire?
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>Uhh....the reason the political issue is often not discussed, perhaps,
>is that most of us could care less about that approach.  We're hams, we
>like to build and try things.  This guy just asked if it was possible
>and where to learn about it and got a liberal arts dissertation on the
>political aspects.  I fail to see where you even begin to help the
>gentleman with his question.
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>>    One asset hams have and I have not seen discussed is the
>>organisation we already have. In many ways we are playing catch up in
>>radio networking, but we are way ahead in not for profit social
>>structure.  The ability to run a ham fest to fund a years worth of
>>projects or to actually collect yearly dues is amazing.  We are also
>>organized nationally.
>>    In most instances when I promote HSMM to hams the question I get
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>>not how, but why? We must approach the construction of networks as a
>>social problem.
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>Actually, I will continue to build networks, use them, share them, sell
>them as needed without approaching their construction as a social
>problem.  Yes, anytime you build a network with multiple groups you have
>politics, but I would certainly engineer it from the operations side
>first, then consider the politics.  Done the other way around, you'll
>never move forward past the political stage.
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>There are products that do allow mobility, one we've worked with
>recently is Esteem Wireless.  Their access points can be configured and
>tweaked with mobility options to allow the build out of the network
>exactly as was designed.
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>Data-linc is another company we use for this type of an environment,
>very good equipment and engineering.
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>It's doable, done, and re-doable.
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>73 N7HQR
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>>Carl Walthall wrote:
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>>>Hi All
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>>>If a person setup a large 802.11b network under part 97 city wide
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>>>multiple access points running infrastructure.  Could a person with
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>>>laptop in their car drive from one end to the other without losing
>>>connection? In other words, could the network be setup to handoff
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>>>connection from access point to access point the same as a cell
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>phone
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>>>would (Mobile IP)? I am sure its not the same, but could you stay
>>>connect as long as your getting a strong signal from a access point?
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>>>would also like to know the best place to read up on this subject?
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>>>Thanks in advance
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>>>Carl Walthall
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