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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 these off-the-shelf | For home nodes we are currently supporting these off-the-shelf router [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 | The mesh mainly uses wifi routers with 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]. | ||
Node-owners can choose to connect the nodes to their existing internet connection using ethernet. If they have Internet access, they can share a portion of it with the mesh. The amount of bandwidth shared is limited with 'tc'. It is chosen at node-configuration time and can be changed using the simple built-in web admin interface. | Node-owners can choose to connect the nodes to their existing internet connection using ethernet. If they have Internet access, they can share a portion of it with the mesh. The amount of bandwidth shared is limited with the tool 'tc'. It is chosen at node-configuration time and can be changed using the simple built-in web admin interface. | ||
== The three wifi networks and IP assignment == | == The three wifi networks and IP assignment == | ||