[Commotion-dev] What would you do with the USB port on your Commotion access point?

[Paul Gardner-Stephen]

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 12:39 AM, Dan Staples
<danstaples at opentechinstitute.org> wrote:
> A USRP for OpenBTS! Although I doubt a router has the processing power
> needed to encode voice data and the like... A HackRF would also be a
> great peripheral to use once those are publicly available:
> http://ossmann.blogspot.com/2012/06/introducing-hackrf.html.

Well, remember the Mesh Potato ran a full asterisk install on a 180MHz
MIPS, which is about as slow as any router.  So OpenBTS is not out of
the question.

> I currently have a router with a USB port, that I run DD-WRT on. I have
> a 250GB HDD plugged into it, which I use for automated backups of a
> website I run, plus a SFTP server. A USB port was a deciding factor in
> the router I decided to buy...It's an ASUS WL-520GU. But I could also
> see a 3G dongle as a big appeal for a USB port.
>
> Another idea is to use a USB drive as a crypto device. Insert the USB
> flash drive to unlock a keyring or some private key material. That would
> be an easy way to deploy multiple routers on a network that need to use
> a common encryption key(s).

Related to that, I would use it for connecting mass storage for
Rhizome caching.

Also, once we get the code written, to connect an Arduino+HopeRFM23BP
for long-range meshing.  We are going to try this with a pile of
TP-LINK WR703N's that we have.

Paul.

> Dan
>
> On Wed 23 Jan 2013 03:46:25 AM EST, Christian Huldt wrote:
>>
>> Ben West skrev 2013-01-22 22:15:
>>>
>>>
>>> What could this USB port do for you?
>>>
>>> - Filesystem for squid proxy? (Probably not very practical)
>>> - 3G/4G modem for Internet gateway?
>>> - USB sound adapter for streaming MP3 applications?
>>> - Control this desktop rocket launcher
>>> http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/8a0f/ ?
>>
>>
>> 3G/4G modem and/or a tellstick to control some equipment
>> http://www.telldus.se/products/tellstick
>>
>>
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