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Naming Convention for MeshAP
| January 16, 2005
In many of my articles I illustrate my mesh topology.
Many have enquired to the funny looking names. Some suggested that
I use Greek Gods names or Names of the person that are using the
MeshAP. Neither one is satisfactory when you are planning a large
installation.
Here is my method.
The topology map show very little of the actual
name of the node. I try to
name my nodes based on function and
asset number, and identification example:
O-39-Ridgemount 20030911-Compaq-1
 | O - is the direction of the antenna is facing, in
this case
O - Omni Directional. E is for East facing, W is for
West facing,
S is for South Facing, N is for North facing and D is
for Diversity. |
| Next the 39 is the location address. It
could be also the apartment
number. |
| Ridgemount is the street name or area where the
units are located. |
| 20030911 is date when the unit became a live. |
| Compaq is the Model |
| 1 is the asset tag. |
Recently Wiana receive a new feature call Notes.
Most of this information can be put into the note section; however, when
you are actual "surfing the mesh" and trying to determine
where the signal is coming from, it's good to see it in the splash
page. On the bottom of the splash page the node name
appears. Many times I think I connect to a node but in reality I
connect to another node. I planning to have over 1000 nodes so
that having a node identification based on place location was cool.
I just wish the new system navigation system would
also be added to the splash page. It would probably help.
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