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What's true about modern meshes that obviates the conditional probability of success? This'll be news to me!

• exelius 9y ago
  Modern meshes still often have a choke point. Kill enough nodes at the right point in the mesh and the reliability degrades quickly as the backhaul links get oversubscribed. At least that's what I think OP meant :)
  • lstamour 9y ago
    Intriguingly, I think my Google OnHub devices use spanning tree to find Internet across the mesh. I actually wired up both rather than use mesh networks on their own, though, and a bug in my Cisco wired switch's use of spanning tree was what caused problems -- despite having the cables connected, and ethernet running just fine between them, the spanning tree figured transmitting over wireless from one OnHub to the other would be faster than the ethernet switch between them. (The fix was to disable broken, manual spanning tree settings on the Cisco switch.) This indicates to me that if you had a dozen Google Wi-Fi devices and a few of them had ethernet connections, the rest would quickly find the shortest path from your device to the AP you're connected to the nearest mesh device with the fastest ethernet to the outside world. I'm not sure how the hops are weighted though, presumably reliability and signal strength plays a role.