Welcome to Lancaster Mesh The goal of this project is to get a wireless mesh cloud above Lancaster, allowing internet access just about anywhere. We are in the process of evaluating various different existing meshing technologies, along with looking at the option of creating our own. So far, we have looked at some off the shelf solutions such as Meraki, LocustWorld, and Open-Mesh. Also we have experimented with using routing protocols such as OLSR and AODV to create our own hardware/software solution. One of the main pre-requisites is that the hardware should be as cheap as possible, preferably using straight forward off the shelf components or devices such as the WRT54G (or other OpenWRT routers), or a standard low spec PC. |
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Well, I've managed to get four open-mesh nodes up and running, configured as lancastermesh.co.uk and using Coova for captive portal settings. If anyone is around Lancaster, please feel free to give it a try and let me know of any problems. Hopefully, soon there will be OpenID login, but for now you will need a Coova account. Enjoy! |
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