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Would be neat to see a mesh-network of these running on old phones of which most people have 1 or 2 of at their house with a REALLY simple installer. A few of
by cyanbane 12y ago
Would be neat to see a mesh-network of these running on old phones of which most people have 1 or 2 of at their house with a REALLY simple installer.
A few of these sprout up organically in locales and it would be like the BBS days of yore - ultimately it could lead to a larger geographical footprint of a "side-net".
- jobu 12y agoDoes Piratebox support wireless bridging or mesh? This is a super handy feature of dd-wrt (http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/index http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/index).
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- MaStr 12y agoSpeaking for the OpenWRT-implementation. mesh is in preparation. There is already a mesh implementation done for the sister-project "LibraryBox. The code is contributed back to PirateBox. It still needs some tine addons to work nicely. Bridging could be done with some configuration, I think. IMHO the 2nd device don't need to be a PirateBox. http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/recipes/atheroswds http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/recipes/atheroswds regards Matthias
- xhrpost 12y agoDidn't think about using an old phone. I think I found the Android App on the Play store [1] but it requires root which likely removes the 'REALLY simple installer' requirement. [1]https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.fun2code.android.piratebox https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.fun2code.an...
- bri3d 12y agoCheck out "The Serval Project" - it checks a few of your boxes, although it focuses more on securing and expand 1-to-1 communication than the community/BBS aspect.