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connect to nearby openwireless routers = mesh #169

Closed Neon22 closed 10 years ago

Neon22 commented 10 years ago

Can we allow any openwireless routers in vicinity to establish a mesh. This way you may get connection to server without going through ISP at all.

Then spread this build to as many routers as possible (similar to openwrt and ddwrt) and get them into every home.

= shadowed internet.

sarciszewski commented 10 years ago

:+1: This would be awesome.

Rangak commented 10 years ago

We wont be supporting mesh functioning directly. Given that the router is OpenWRT based users are welcome to use the SSH access to the router to install the mesh related packages from the OpenWRT package repositories via opkg and customize the router to their needs. I am personally a fan of WiFi Mesh networking. I am also aware of it's limitations and the challenges non-specialist users face to get it right. We have a more limited goal in this OpenWireless project and it doesn't make sense to complicate and add risk to achieving the simpler OpenWireless goals by throwing mesh into the mix at this stage of the project. I would encourage hackers to fork this repo and customize with mesh technology of their choice. I will be keenly watching the results of such a fork.