Deploying wifimesh Pty Ltd could take millions of years, if they are going to do it 75m at a time, i can already see them deploying WUG-style long range "pirate" links to bridge their own digital divide (tm), although they will deny this.
I cant see them convincing "hundreds of thousands" of clients to buy their AP's at R2000, not in a country where the majority of the population's monthly earnings are less than 40% of a wifimesh Pty (Ltd) AP's cost.
So we will see them trying to make their profits in the middle/upper class suburbs, and not giving a damn about the poor.
I dont even want to imagine a traceroute covering 1km's distance on wifimesh Pty Ltd, its going to be ugly, they are probably going to use tunnels to hide most of their network infrastructure. Also very unlikely that you'll have administrative privileges on your own router/AP, even though you will pay for it.
Expect high latencies, as wifi pings sky rocket when the radios are handling file transfers.
A 75m link through some common urban obstacles like trees, walls,etc with the equipment as described, wont have perfect <1ms latency, instead expect something between 3ms or 10ms, and when you're adding the additional lag file tranfers will be causing, this network would make even the worst telkom 14k line seem fast.
Crossing a small distance like 1km on wifimesh would be a nightmare. I dont want to think what would happen if someone else's router breaks or get stolen, this could have devastating effects on the wifimesh network. The cost of replacing a wifimesh router is simply too high to replace at short notice, so expect extended down times, until Mr so-and-so saves enough money to buy a wifimesh Pty Ltd router again.
The problems wifimesh users will experience are endless, i hope for the innocent customer's sake, they include backup UPS or alternative power source for these expensive R2000 routers, small isolated power outages (which are common in Gauteng) will cause havoc.
I cant see them convincing "hundreds of thousands" of clients to buy their AP's at R2000, not in a country where the majority of the population's monthly earnings are less than 40% of a wifimesh Pty (Ltd) AP's cost.
So we will see them trying to make their profits in the middle/upper class suburbs, and not giving a damn about the poor.
I dont even want to imagine a traceroute covering 1km's distance on wifimesh Pty Ltd, its going to be ugly, they are probably going to use tunnels to hide most of their network infrastructure. Also very unlikely that you'll have administrative privileges on your own router/AP, even though you will pay for it.
Expect high latencies, as wifi pings sky rocket when the radios are handling file transfers.
A 75m link through some common urban obstacles like trees, walls,etc with the equipment as described, wont have perfect <1ms latency, instead expect something between 3ms or 10ms, and when you're adding the additional lag file tranfers will be causing, this network would make even the worst telkom 14k line seem fast.
Crossing a small distance like 1km on wifimesh would be a nightmare. I dont want to think what would happen if someone else's router breaks or get stolen, this could have devastating effects on the wifimesh network. The cost of replacing a wifimesh router is simply too high to replace at short notice, so expect extended down times, until Mr so-and-so saves enough money to buy a wifimesh Pty Ltd router again.
The problems wifimesh users will experience are endless, i hope for the innocent customer's sake, they include backup UPS or alternative power source for these expensive R2000 routers, small isolated power outages (which are common in Gauteng) will cause havoc.
bit steep to get started for me. Do we need that as well or is the card fine?? I also recall the guy mentioning one doesn't need an antenna. 
its probably the uncertainty of it all that gets to everyone. Like I said a few times before in this forum, "Show a South African a good deal and he wants to know what's the catch!!". Thats because we are so used to being ripped off to no end.
