Jerry- Thanks - is the Engenius product no longer supported? I couldn't find anything on Engenius website about it and seems like only a few distributors have this product in stock. Deliberant is in the same enclosure as OSBridge uses for their full duplex backhauls.
It'd be cool to combo a bullet5 and pico hp2 with a crossover harness that injects power where the bullet5 + omni would BH the devices and the pico would provide service to end users. Seems like you'd get a ghetto mesh for ~130/node. Thanks, `S -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jerry Richardson Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 10:08 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Mesh just for kicks I just went through this exercise - spent hours looking at various options. Deliberant and Engenius are the two options I arrived at. These seemed like the best price/performance to me and are refined enough to be easily supported. It's not true Mesh but rather WDS distribution via radio 1 and client access on radio 2 - Engenius EOC-7550 Dual radio AP (4 SSID/VLAN) - 199 - cheesy omni's included I think - Deliberant DUO Dual radio AP (16 SSID/VLAN) - 349 - no antennas If you can get away with a single radio WDS setup, then the costs drop through the floor - Sprinkle them around like chicklets: - Ubiquity Pico, Nano, etc - 49 and up - Engenius - copy cats - 49 and up - Linksys WRT54GL with DD-WRT - etc If it really needs to be mesh then the two lowest cost options I found are: - MikroTik with two radios - 349/kit assembled - no antennas - Ligowave DUO and Quad - 1k and up - no antennas __________________________________ Jerry Richardson airCloud Communications -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Vander Dussen Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 9:13 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] Mesh just for kicks Looking to deploy a small mesh network downtown in a small city just for kicks. Low budget ($4k for ~10 nodes) - just want to get my feet wet and have some fun. I'd charge for the service if it was easy enough to do and it worked good enough to justify a cost, otherwise free. Was hoping there is was a turn-key solution (PLEASE don't suggest Mikrotik - I could ask for a recommendation on how to remove chest hair and someone will mention MT). Anyhow, turn-key like Meraki advertises would be cool. How about the Pico2HP - is there a firmware that works on those that could mesh? Very new to mesh - thanks in advance. `S PS- Please don't hijack the thread defending how great MT is and how it can save the world etc.. not bashing, just want plug+play which != MT. (: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
