Mesh Networking Seattle Mind Camp at mattw.fn

Published

on November 10, 2005

It’s taken a couple of days to decompress from the madness that was MindCamp, but Rob has written up a piece on what happened with the network.

Here’s my bullet points on what not to do next time.

Don’t trust the WiFi Alliance to test ad-hoc.
Don’t trust Windows to do the right thing.
Don’t trust manufacturers will have sane wireless configs. One thinkpad I tried to help with had 3 competing drivers, all with different configurations
Don’t offer DHCP on the 802.11a link. People will find it and upload podcasts. Funny ones even.
Find out where common speed test sites are and netnanny them.
Show up weeks before, not days before. T1s in the space doesn’t mean they’re active.
Don’t show up for a 24 hour event already on sleep dep.

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