Fw: WiFi router networking?

[Steve Kinney]

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On 09/15/2015 01:21 PM, jim bell wrote:
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> Has anyone heard of an idea to use individual WiFi routers to 
> communicate in a mesh net?  (Or, at least differently than it 
> may have been done before.)   If you look at a map of WiFi 
> routers (www.wigle.net) in any given area, you will see that 
> the vast majority of routers are physically close to many
> other routers, certainly close enough to communicate with each
> other, and ultimately over a long distance.  A crowd-sourced 
> communication system, one that wouldn't necessarily go through 
> the Internet backbone.  Conceptually related to the Bittorrent 
> system.    I just found this: 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Direct

A friend turned me on to this some time ago.  I have yet to set up
any mesh networks but it does look VERY promising.

http://hsmm-mesh.org/

:o)



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