Journal: frottle: Defeating the Wireless Hidden Node Problem

The West Australian FreeNet Group was the first to go War Flying - and now we've released "frottle" (freenet throttle) - an open source project to control & manage traffic on fixed wireless networks. Such control eliminates the common hidden-node effect even on large scale wireless networks. frottle works by scheduling client traffic by using a master node to co-ordinate - effectively eliminating collisions! Developed and tested on the large community wireless network of WaFreeNet, We've found it has given us a significant improvement in network usability and throughput.

This is MAJOR news for wireless junkies! Frottle virtually eliminates both congestion and signal strength issues on consumer grade equipment totally FREE as in free beer!