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= Compatible devices =
= Compatible devices =


We should have ready-made images for:
We're going to target ar71xx devices with decent storage + processing speed + memory for "router board" nodes.


*One really cheap indoor router (with 3G usb stick support?) like [http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr703n TP-Link TL-WR703N]
Right now we're using for "router board" nodes:
*One nice high-speed indoor router (300 mbps 802.11n)
WD MyNet N750 and/or TP-Link TL-WDR4300
*Ubiquiti hardware. Most of the AirMAX stuff.
The MyNets are no longer in production, but the TL-WDR4300 are the exact same board, just with external antennas.
 
Then we can use "extender nodes" which can basically just do wifi and bridging. This would be basically any router which supports openwrt. We'll probably begin by targeting a variety of ubiquiti long-distance high power radios (Nanostation M line, Bullet M line, Picostation M line, Nanobridge/beam/etc).  
 
Really the extender nodes are just doing dumb bridging. The only reason we want them to run openwrt is so that they can do some fancier address assignment with [https://github.com/sudomesh/notdhcp notdhcp] and have some nice UI features. We could actually setup something like 2 ends of an airfiber and just configure them the way we want (wouldn't need the dynamic features of notdhcp).

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