Re: Google Summer of Code 2011 - The Linux Foundation is Accepted as Mentoring Organization

[Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com>]

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.

    Till