[Commotion-discuss] Some pre-experimentation mesh hardware inquiries

[Mikael Nordfeldth]

Hello,
I'm involved in Umeå Hackerspace, northern Sweden, and we're thinking 
(like so many others) that a wireless mesh network would be great to 
have in our neighbourhood. I've been looking at both Commotion and the 
Byzantium project (http://project-byzantium.org/) for inspiration, 
technology and software.

 From what I can tell Commotion currently has OpenWRT builds for some of 
the Ubiquiti hardware and from what I can tell from documentation this 
is a working solution albeit somewhat hacky and developer-oriented. I 
have a little bit of personal budget to kickstart this project and buy 
hardware to experiment with. My first test scenario is to at least have 
three APs/laptops working in a mesh to connect an apartment a couple of 
blocks away from the source internet connection.

Any experience-based suggestions on which hardware is best suited, 
general tips for putting up a network like this etc. for someone who's 
only used two OpenWRT boxes to "bridge" before?

And a bonus inquiry: are there any efforts (or ideas on how much effort 
it would mean) to put Commotion firmware onto common units like the 
Linksys WRT54GL and such?

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Mikael Nordfeldth
http://blog.mmn-o.se/
Xmpp/mail: mmn at hethane.se