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<div style="margin:0 0 10px 0;"><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, March 25, 2018 at 11:41 AM<br/>
<b>From:</b> "James Courtier-Dutton" <james.dutton@gmail.com><br/>
<b>To:</b> "stuart taylor" <stuart.taylor@linuxmail.org>, "The mailing list for the Greater London Linux User Group" <gllug@mailman.lug.org.uk><br/>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [GLLUG] Charity WiFi, a bit off topic</div>
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<div>On Sat, 24 Mar 2018, 15:54 stuart taylor via GLLUG, <<a href="mailto:gllug@mailman.lug.org.uk" onclick="parent.window.location.href='gllug@mailman.lug.org.uk'; return false;" target="_blank">gllug@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div>I'd like some advice, please. I voluteer at a charity and have got them all using Linux on their computers. Now they want me to install a WiFi system for them. They have recently refurbished part of the building and wish to turn it into a meeting room for 20-25 people. The current broadband WiFi doesn't reach up to the meeting room, so will need some additions.</div>
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<div>My local pub uses something called Open Mesh, has anyone used these, and are they any good?</div>
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<div>Hi,</div>
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<div>It is a shame that during the refurb, they did not think to add ethernet sockets in each room.</div>
<div>It would have been very easy to add wifi then.<br/>
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<div>While wifi is good, sometimes, having a physical ethernet cable in a meeting room is a great thing to have, when everything else fails.<br/>
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<div>Now the wifi.</div>
<div>The question is:</div>
<div>1) Will users be happy having to switch to a different access point when they move rooms, or<br/>
2) would they prefer the wifi network to take care of that for them.<br/>
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<div>(2) is often preferable, but tends to be more expensive.</div>
<div>I actually don't know why (2) is more expensive, if support for it was added to every wifi router, then it would be cheap.<br/>
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<div>With (2) the wifi network has a single central controller, and then distributed antennas.</div>
<div>This permits the system to determine where every client PC/Phone is, and ensure that the most efficient method is used to communicate with it. I.e. Automatically use the closest antenna.<br/>
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<div>There will be special guest logins for the meeting room, so it will be 1). I did suggest physical cable and sockets, but the facillities coordinator was against this and I couldn't be bothered to argue. I might revisit this.</div>
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<div>regards</div>
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<div>Stuart</div>
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