WiFi: why not a diagram showing access points?

[Tim]

On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 22:54 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> We often mention at the 802 wireless sessions (both 802.11 and 802.15)
> how amazing it is that this stuff works at all!

I feel much the same.  It's all well and good when you're not sharing
airspace with anybody, but in a crowded location, I'm surprised if it
works well.

Years of having to deal with hassles of multi-transmitter interference
while using wireless microphones and walkie-talkies has made me
reluctant to use anything wireless when I could plug a cable in.

What defines a crowded location is variable.  You could be in the middle
of a few access points, and few clients, spread fairly widely, where
it's merely a case of which one too choose, and you can use any of them
without *too* much trouble.  You could be in a block of flats, with
access points and multiple clients behind every wall, floor, and
ceiling, with several on the same channel, blocking each other.

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