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what's the best hardware to go for an el cheapo mesh network with decent range these days? tp-link with openwrt? ubiquiti?
by dharma1 12y ago
what's the best hardware to go for an el cheapo mesh network with decent range these days? tp-link with openwrt? ubiquiti?
- hultner 12y agoWell I have no experience actually setting up this but some high power routers/access points with high gain antennas would probably be preferable (at least if both sides use comparable hardware). I don't know how well the software stands up from software such as Amped Wireless equipment but they'd probably be a good from an hardware standpoint. But it might be cheaper jam wifi-cards in the already available computers and running local software. I once needed internet access from an server with no physical network access, however I had an friend living across the hall (quite thick concrete and brick walls but hardwood doors). That time I were rather successful running two cheapo PCI wifi-cards with external antennas I had laying around. Used lagg interfaces (link aggregation in failover mode) in FreeBSD and got a workable remote terminal session over mosh. It wasn't optimal but it certainly worked.
- rcpt 12y agoGetting openwrt on a tp-link router is real easy and there's cjdns builds available now. cf. https://www.reddit.com/r/darknetplan/comments/2lmpqg/running_cjdns_on_commodity_routers_w_openwrt/ https://www.reddit.com/r/darknetplan/comments/2lmpqg/running... There's also the Serval app. Turns out that none of my neighbors use cjdns but ymmv.