[Battlemesh] Testbed for Mesh is in the air <3

[guifipedro]

@Leonardo I was not expecting to bring hardware but I will give it a
try and reply when I have news.



In my opinion plus experience the best practice now is (and request
for songs here):

- don't force the testbed, let it be
- battlemesh is more than a testbed
- If it happens is nice, if not we can still be friends

The testbed of last year is a good reference. Managed by spontaneous
people in place.

Reference of the past battlemesh v10 testbed
https://github.com/battlemesh/battlemeshv10-testbed

Read about "4. Suggestion for the Future Battlemeshers", I agree a lot
with what they said:

    Do small tests

in other words: quality is more important than quantity.

Some of the guifi folks got very frustrated trying to coordinate/build
large testbeds (specially in Slovenia). I was not expecting to bring
hardware, but I will ask and try to bring some devices.

Continuing with the suggestions, another good one:

    Fork the testbed

The hardware is not only important for the testbed, sometimes
developers find bugs; sometimes people drink too much club mate and
discussions between people require quick testbeds with crazy ideas,
sometimes they just need one device with wifi.

On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 10:32 AM, Leonardo Maccari <mail at leonardo.ma> wrote:
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> On 04/04/18 22:37, Monic Meisel wrote:
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> Dear battlemesh attendants,
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> I have a question regarding the testbed hardware … there is just one entry
> on our contribution page so far:
> https://www.wireless-meshup.org/doku.php/contribution
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> Last year @battlemesh the hardware was self organized by the attendees … The
> „Förderverein" has some stuff in our deposit, but I don’t have any clue,
> what would you prefer or what are your needs?
>
> As you may know, I was never involved in the measurement campaign itself. Is
> there a need to set up something upfront? I remember some discussions the
> last years, is there any best practice by now?
>
> Thanks for helping out on this topic,
> Best Monic
>
>
> Hi Monic,
>
> In the past 2/3 years we had some Tp-link WDR4300 brought by various people,
> I think (but may be wrong) that a bunch of them comes from Guifi people,
> (Pedro ?).
> I will bring 6 ubnt Unifi Pro, which we used as a testing test-bed (so we
> tried stuff there before using it in the large one).
>
> About organizing the testbed, we did it live at the place itself. As these
> are dual band routers we used one frequency for the management and another
> for the tests themselves.
> This always makes things unstable, as the management layer never works
> properly, so at the last BM we suggested that for the next time the wireless
> testbed could become... wired. Meaning that we use one radio for the mesh,
> but we cable all the routers one to the other to do the management. This
> would spare us of a lot of waste of time.
>
> I don't remember if C-base is cabled or not and if we can use existing
> wall-plugs, or we need to bring cable, plugs, crimp pliers, duct tape, and
> tape cables to the ground in all the place. In the second case it would be
> nice to have the stuff in place.
>
> ciao,
> leonardo.
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