31 Jan
2013
31 Jan
'13
7:28 p.m.
On 31.1.2013 18:36, Brian Hechinger wrote:
On 1/31/2013 2:35 AM, Kari Uusim ki wrote:
Do you have any idea if the mesh would create lots of traffic?
I mean that if there are 20 Area Routers exchanging hellos all the
time and route updates every now and then, how much bandwidth would
that need?
I think many participants have e.g. an ADSL connection with 1Mbit/s or
something like it. Would the continuous routing traffic cut a
significant slice of the bandwidth?
That's a really good question. We should probably get some of the
experts to answer that. :)
That being said, there is nothing says we can't do both. If anyone
doesn't want to be a part of the mesh just let me know and we'll pick
two locations to be hubs.
Anyway, the mesh idea sounds good. I vote for it. I think it has
benefits like better availability in case of power outages or HW
failures and better distributed traffic between the various areas.
I really can't imagine it's going to be a big deal, so a mesh definitely
is a nice thing. Not being dependent on any one site is a good thing. :)
-brian
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I have a fixed IP and therefore my connection is very static. Unfortunately, my connection
is only 1Mbit/s outwards. I'll check if it would be possible to upgrade it.
Kari