Product Description
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Daihinia™ is a tool for WiFi. It turns a simple Ad-Hoc network into a Multi-hop Ad-Hoc network. Multi-hop Ad-Hoc networks offer a higher level of flexibility than the usual Infrastructure Mode: in Infrastructure Mode all the computers have to be in the range of the Access Point, while in Multi-hop Ad-Hoc networks they have to be within one another's range, possibly forming chains longer than one hop.
Basically, Daihinia™ offers a Mesh Network layer for WiFi Ad-Hoc (IBSS) networks, thus making the network infrastructure be implicitly maintained by the users themselves. It's a nice idea that a network user supports the network around him/her just by the fact that he/she uses the network.
Unlike other solutions that allow mesh topology only between Access Points, Daihinia™ uses IBSS Mode and adds mesh functionality directly to computers, and does not use Access Points at all. Daihinia is implemented as a network driver for Windows systems and is completely transparent to the programs.
Sample application diagram (share an internet connection over multi-hop ad-hoc):
Facts:
- Daihinia™ is a perfect solution for home and small office networks: wireless computers will use each other to establish a path to the computer that shares its wired internet conection to the wireless mesh network.
- Daihinia™ is a must-have for any user with a laptop. Based on the network name (SSID), Daihinia driver only enables itself for networks that are prefixed "Daihinia" in their names, and does not interfere when connected to the usual (infrastructure-mode and non-multihop ad-hoc) networks.
- Daihinia™ is better than any SoftAP solution because the resulting network scales easier and automatically.
- Daihinia's unique routing algorithm has an overhead of less than 1.5% (some other mesh solutions can eat as high as 10%).
- In contrast with the emerging 802.11s standard, Daihinia™ has the advantage of working on all adapters capable of Ad-Hoc mode, not only on a small "softmac" subset.
- Daihinia™ works down at the ethernet level, presenting all stations in the Daihinia network as being in the same ethernet segment. By doing so, it is compatible with many protocols and is not limited to IP.
