On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/19/2011 12:26 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> >> So one idea I was thinking about was that of using P2P to enable >> phones to grant a central box tethering capabilities to their 3G >> connection, while the central box acts as a regular AP. This can be >> useful on trains to enable users to share their internet and aggregate >> their connections together. So the project would consist of the >> utilities and hooks to get these boxen easily deployed anywhere. >> >> Since cell phones tend to beacon on the same channel, channel 6, the >> central box would only be able to aggregate more than 3G connection by >> having different phones establish a P2P connection on the same >> channel. Not sure how many connections this limits us to then. It >> would also be nice to get the AP to function as a regular AP on >> something other than channel 6 so I guess we'd need the central box to >> do P2P with multichannel operation. That support likely won't hit >> upstream for a while.. so hrmm.. >> >> Just an idea, maybe next year. > > I would simply post it. Hm, well the technical aspects of supporting such an implementation would be required upstream first. If I get feedback we can at least do some minimal 2-cell phone thether sharing setup then likely we can get someone to work on it. Looking for feedback on this though first. Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
