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GENRIP for Ultra Low Cost Wireless Deployments

Posted by michael on from the masochists-wanted dept.

Gregory Perry writes "A South Florida company just released GENRIP, an open source (as in GPL) project for Linux that turns low cost serial line devices (such as 900 Mhz radios) into IP addressable nodes; right now the technology is being used by various robotics groups to replace existing wired tethers on robots with wireless radio links, but the important thing to mention is the ability to use cheap radios to create wireless lan segments without the power and cost requirements associated with 802.11 WLANS."

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  1. Re:not a replacement by Jouster · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Yep, with my emphasis added:

    Unless you're moving relatively small amounts of non-critical information, GENRIP is probably not for you. GENRIP does not even attempt to compete with 802.11 wireless LAN equipment. That's not what it's for. GENRIP is SLOW! For example, the MHX-910 radios give approximately 120ms round trip ping times, and an actual streaming throughput (using TCP) of about 21K, which is slightly less than your average 28.8K modems. While this is certainly not bad, it's not going to help you if you're looking for fast wireless connectivity.


    Jouster