[CWN-Summit] Seeking advice on low-cost mesh node wifi in St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Stelios Valavanis stel at onshore.com
Tue Nov 18 09:43:20 CST 2008


sounds like too big a network for WDS.

On Tuesday 18 November 2008 12:43:24 am Russell Senior wrote:
> >>>>> "Ben" == Ben West <westbywest at gmail.com> writes:
>
> Ben> [...] So, assuming you have a $10-$15k start-up budget (including
> Ben> equipment purchase. deployment, AND marketing) for installing
> Ben> wifi along a ~2mile corridor with lots of 3story rooftops, what
> Ben> suggestions are out there?
>
> Ben> Meraki, and take your lumps?
>
> Ben> Open-mesh.com, which is appealing since OpenWRT can be deployed
> Ben> to legacy devices like residents' existing Linksys routers?
>
> Ben> OpenWRT + Kamikaze + OLSRd (i.e. roll your own)?
>
> Ben> Freifunk.net?
>
> Ben> WifiDog for the captive portal + OpenWRT?
>
> Another thing to look at is Ubiquity NanoStations.  They are not very
> expensive and you can pretty easily use the 5.8GHz NanoStation5's
> ($90) as backhaul units to provide transport between buildings along
> your corridor.  They are reflashable, but the stock firmware is pretty
> good too.
>
> We use WDS on a 5 roof network and the capacity on the backhaul has
> always substantially exceeded our internet bandwidth.
>
> The nice thing about WDS is that you can see all the mac addresses
> from your gateway, making management pretty simple.

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