gateway or router co transmits over the channel for example the gateway 404 may have a link with the router 406 the gateway 408 may be able to sense the carrier of the gateway 404 the carrier of the gateway 404 however may be fairly well attenuated at the gateway 408 the gateway 408 may assess the signal strength of the gateway 404 and determine that it may establish a link with the router 410 the established link may have some co channel interference and may not be as robust as it would be without the interference the gateway 408 may also adjust its data rate to the router 410 to compensate for any decrease in the expected signal to noise ratio at the router 410 due to the co channel interference similarly the gateway 402 may adjust its data rate to the router 404 to compensate for any decrease in the signal to noise ratio by allowing some co channel interference the throughput of each individual flow pair is reduced however the number of flow pairs in the mesh network may be increased in this embodiment the number of flow pairs supported by the mesh network is twelve thus in this embodiment individual.