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Marlinski / Rumble

Rumble allows the sharing of messages and pictures without relying on the Internet, in a Delay Tolerant Fashion following the Store-Carry and Forward paradigm
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WiFi on android sucks #31

Closed deavmi closed 8 years ago

deavmi commented 8 years ago

Maybe a message should be displayed when using wifi mode about how the infrastructure mode is not the best. With an option to "Not show this message again.". I think this is important as infrastructure mode is crap.

Marlinski commented 8 years ago

can you develop as to why infrastructure mode is crap ?

deavmi commented 8 years ago

It's all in the word.

Ad-hoc mode allows the network to operate in a more democratic way. If it uses infrustructure mode then if the AP goes down then all devices connected to it cannot communicate to each other using WiFi as the medium.

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can you develop as to why infrastructure mode is crap ?

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Marlinski commented 8 years ago

ah well, I couldn't agree more unfortunetly google has been deaf to the issue since 2008: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=82

Even though wifi chips do provide adhoc support, it is currently not natively supported by android. The only way would be to root the device (as done on the serval project) which is not a requirement I want.

deavmi commented 8 years ago

Google should just implement it. They are such bullshitters sometimes, honestly.