• Dandroid@dandroid.app
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    This happened to me. It actually started with, "I accidentally told this wifi router salesman guy at a trade show that I would listen to his sales pitch. Now he's coming to our office in an hour to give it. Can you sit in on the meeting with me so I'm not alone? You know a lot about wifi, right?"

    I didn't even know what the meeting was about. I assumed he was trying to sell our office a wifi mesh system, which we already had. It wasn't until about halfway through that I realized that he was trying to sell us these routers+source code so we could integrate them into our product line and resell them. And then I realized how many of our problems that would solve, so I started asking questions. Next thing I knew, I was the lead engineer on a wifi mesh system.

    It was a super fun project, though. And I got lots of raises and a title increase for taking it on.

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      That’s actually a positive outcome! Mine is usually trying to fix a symptom of a larger problem no one wants to admit exists.

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      I thought wifi mesh systems were completely unthinkable in an enterprise environment considering their poor performance.

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        Not sure exactly what metric you are referring to for poor performance or in what conditions the mesh would achieve the poor performance you are referring to. As a former lead engineer on a mesh router system, I can assure you that mesh systems are capable of very high performance if done correctly and set up properly. Just about everyone uses them as far as I am aware. You wouldn't have one wireless access point for a whole massive building.

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          I’m imagining some kind of massive modified radio tower devoted to supplying wifi to a building directly below

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          You wouldn’t have one wireless access point for a whole massive building.

          No, you would use multiple access points, wired and likely powered with ethernet.