Ignore this, I think I have found my answer in the archives!
Damian
On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 00:13 +1000, Damian Ivereigh wrote:
I am seriously looking at using B.A.T.M.A.N. to drive a mesh network in a small town in Australia. One of the hassles with typical mesh networks is the way the performance drops off when you have many hops, due to the radio having to keep switching between send and receive. The standard way to get around this appears to be to use multiple radios.
How is this done with batman? Is it a case of having multiple directional aerials - such that one radio can be receiving from one direction and another can be sending to the next node up the chain? It makes sense to put the local traffic (e.g. running a local AP) on a separate radio from the "back haul".
Does anyone have any experience with sort of layout? The main driver here is performance rather than coverage.
Damian