Difference between revisions of "Mesh/Technical Overview"

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The node operator can choose to put a home node in their living room and if they decide they want a high speed directional link to a neighbour then they can put e.g. a Nanobridge M5 running the extender node firmware on their roof and connect it via ethernet to the home node. Or they could put a Nanostation M2 pointed out of their window and extend the signal further out into the street or to nearby neighbours. Each extender node extends all three networks (explained in the next section).
The node operator can choose to put a home node in their living room and if they decide they want a high speed directional link to a neighbour then they can put e.g. a Nanobridge M5 running the extender node firmware on their roof and connect it via ethernet to the home node. Or they could put a Nanostation M2 pointed out of their window and extend the signal further out into the street or to nearby neighbours. Each extender node extends all three networks (explained in the next section).


For home nodes we are currently supporting the following [https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/WalkThrough#Download.2FBuild hardware]. We are not planning to support anything else for the time being, though if you have a good reason please let us know. For extender nodes we are currently supporting the Ubiquiti M series [https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Flashing_extender_nodes#Flash_the_Extender_Node routers].
For home nodes we are currently supporting these off-the-shelf hardware [https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/WalkThrough#Download.2FBuild models]. We are not planning to support anything else for the time being, though if you have a good reason please let us know. For extender nodes we are currently supporting the Ubiquiti M series [https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Flashing_extender_nodes#Flash_the_Extender_Node routers].


The mesh is made up mostly of wifi routers using Atheros chipsets and running [https://github.com/sudomesh/sudowrt-firmware our own firmware] based on [http://openwrt.org/ OpenWRT], [http://www.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr/~jch/software/babel/ Babel] and wlan slovenja's [https://github.com/sudomesh/tunneldigger tunneldigger].  
The mesh is made up mostly of wifi routers using Atheros chipsets and running [https://github.com/sudomesh/sudowrt-firmware our own firmware] based on [http://openwrt.org/ OpenWRT], [http://www.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr/~jch/software/babel/ Babel] and wlan slovenja's [https://github.com/sudomesh/tunneldigger tunneldigger].