WiFi: why not a diagram showing access points?

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 02/17/2011 03:01 AM, Tim wrote:
> 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.

Oh, the you should be following TV-white space! 802.11af

Check out the 802.11 document server 
https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/documents?is_group=00af for all the fun 
and games that are going on there to 'intelligently' share the spectrum...

Also 802.22

> 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.
>