I did some more checking, and it appears people have already wrote custom mesh software for the Meraki (CuWIN, the-mesh.net, etc). So even if you or someone else objected to the phone home strategy, there's other meshing software for it. At the price, it beats buying a WRT54G, is POE, and has more FCC approved power (60mW for the Meraki, vs 30mW for the WRT).
On the bright side, the Linux source code is available, people have already made custom firmware flashes, so even if Meraki goes belly up, we can still utilize our equipment in some form. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dylan Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 12:00 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA Marlon, in the time it takes you to write a sentence like: It's my understanding that Google is somehow involved with this product. You could go to Google - or better yet, an objective third party like Yahoo! - and type in "google meraki". Scan the page, and see something like : GigaOM ยป *Google* Invests in *Meraki*<http://gigaom.com/2006/11/30/meraki-google/>And you no longer have to clutter the list with idle, uninformed speculation. Likewise, Meraki posts its privacy policy at http://meraki.net/legal/privacy/. See esp. the section: Does Meraki Networks Share the Information It Receives?Meraki units HAVE to phone home to e.g. update the dashboard. Best, -- Dylan Oliver Primaverity, LLC -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.5.4/768 - Release Date: 4/19/2007 5:32 AM -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
