Hi.<br>I don't know if there exist some free application to do this. But I think that this is easy to do with a simple script runing in cron.<br>However, this could be dangerous. Because if you are reducing the power when there are more than X nodes in your area, maybe you are going to lost the connectiviti with some of them. And maybe for one of them you are the only path to the rest of the network. Then this node cannot connect to the network anymore.<br>
<br>Also this kind of problem can be solved with some heuristic. But this is not easy.<br><br>Salut!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/4/20 Ryan Hughes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ryan@iheartryan.com">ryan@iheartryan.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi. I was just talking to the guy that runs "Wireless Ypsi" - that's a large wireless network in our neighboring town that, unfortunately, runs Meraki stuff.<br>
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He said that Meraki's software has the ability to automatically decide when to adjust its radio power. You know - reduce power when there's a lot of nodes in the area, to reduce interference; increase power when there are few nodes, to increase coverage.<br>
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I have not yet seen an open-source program that does this. Is there one?<br>
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I'd write one, but I'm not entirely sure what the algorithm should be. (and, of course, Meraki's is closed-source, so there's no way to know what their algorithm is). Have people written about this?<br>
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Thanks.<br>
--Ryan<br>
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