Byzantium/Byzantium — Issue #91: How reliably can clients connect to a mesh node?
Author: virtadpt
Created: 2012-03-04 19:22:07+00:00
State: open
Labels: Request for comments

Some of the user feedback we got from last weekend is that some OSes seem to have trouble connecting to mesh nodes. From Gary Mulder:

-The laptops were all sitting next to each other and we were using a channel which was not being used by any other APs.
-Windows 7 and Windows XP had would take a long time (minutes) before it was working, then disconnect after a while.
-An Ubuntu netbook WiFi client seems to be a bit more reliable.
-An HTC Desire couldn't see the ad hoc network
-An iPhone 4 did seem to work.

It would behoove us to test as many clients as possible to see how they act. If there is anything we can change on our end to make client associations more reliable, we need to know what it is and make it happen.

Windows on the client side is more common than Linux on the client side, so starting there seems like a good idea.