On Jan 22, 2013, at 1:54 PM, Steve Song steve@villagetelco.org wrote:
Hi all,
A colleague of mine is building a batman-adv mesh network in an apartment building with essentially one node per apartment. Not surprisingly, results in a very dense mesh with each node having a large number of neighbours. Here is a typical batctl o output http://pastebin.com/aAR43hj7 This results in some fairly slow connections.
I am seeking some general advice on how to optimise batman-adv in the context of a dense mesh. Options that we have considered include turning the radio transmit power down on all of the devices and/or alternating channels on different floors (e.g. 1,6,11,1,6,11,etc). However, it is not clear to us what is the best strategy in this context. Grateful for any tips or suggestions you may have.
Thanks in advance.... Steve Song
Hi Steve,
The following is my experience.
Optimise layer 1 by: *) proper channel assignments *) reduce txpower *) dont's send when you don't have to send *) use spacial separation of frequencies and directionality if possible (ok, this is more of a general advice, won't matter so much in apartments) *) most importantly: use 802.11n!