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On Friday 27 March 2015 16:52:14 Ruben Wisniewski wrote:
> Hello Simon,
> 
> 
> we just updated our mesh, to the batman-adv-version 2014.4. Now your
> patch batman-adv: increase default hop penalty[1] is included.
> 
> Since we got very large mesh-networks, we have some troubles with your
> patch, which makes long (needed) pathes unusable, because they TQ drop
> to lower zero.
> 
> Else, we got some old and some new batman-adv versions, this change
> overloads the old nodes, because their TQ are better, and similiar
> links over new nodes got ignored.
> 
> Else I see no improvement overall, because the usual urban link-wide
> is about 30-50 meteres, and we got parts of the net where we need 4-5
> hops to reach the last node. Your Patch seem to limit these pathes to
> something around 3 hops. So parts of our net are now offline, and the
> speed overall doesn't seem to be improved.
> 
> After these experience I like to ask you, if you mind reverting this
> patch again. Else we have to work around with resetting to 15 again on
> boot, which I think is not the prefered solution.
> 
> 
> [1]
> http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/repository/revisions/7644650bb7
> 66bd4c7b6be5d97e6b1c3ed93a38d7
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 
> Ruben