Fw: WiFi router networking?

[Christian Gagneraud]

On 17/09/15 12:07, Steve Kinney wrote:
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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
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> 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.
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> http://hsmm-mesh.org/

This might be of interest too: https://freifunk.net/en/

Chris

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