I am very happy with my Asus RT-N16 running EasyTomato. It is just my home firewall / access point, but it was built for the mesh-network use case.
http://www.easytomato.org/get-easytomato/ Richard On Tuesday March 12 2013 15:46:09 "S. Dale Morrey" <[email protected]> wrote: > To answer the questions about conduit. Yes it's sort of in conduit. > They ran 1/2 inch pvc. Running fiber by using the existing cat 5 to > pull is an option I hadn't considered. However pricing fiber out here > (Ecuador AND rural even by Ecuadorian standards), it may be cheaper to > just bust up the curbs and/or stick in DSLAMs. > Another alternative since the ground is flat and the houses are spaced > at a fairly even distance may be just to build a wireless mesh network > and call it good. > I was kind of hoping to reuse the existing infrastructure if possible though. > > If you were to build a wireless mesh network in a 32 home subdivision > what access points would you use as repeaters? I'm looking at the > venerable Linksys WRT54GL and thinking throwing a custom firmware > would be a good option, but that thing is getting a bit long in the > tooth. <snip> /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
