[MLB-WIRELESS] Meraki's

[Hafeez Bana]

Hi Gavin,

A while ago I setup a suite of software on my wireless linux box that had a
dlink card that allowed me to publish that my AP was open for free internet
access but the person using it had to call me.

I made a lot of friends this way and I also got to speak to neighbours who I
would never have the courage to talk to. The AP kind of evolved into a
really strong nice mini community of it's own - what I call "Neighbour 2
Neighbour networking".

We had some people abuse the system and I added bandwith throttling tools to
it and so it was pretty robust.

I have been thinking if it is possible to set something up that in a simple
little router rather then having a whole linux box.

Hence my interest in the meraki and linksys. However I have never upgraded
firmware and am basically looking for someone to hold my hand.

Hafeez

On 9/20/07, Gavin Jackson <gavin at toolernvale.com> wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>
> You have not quite explained what you are wanting the Meraki's for ?
>
> There is the standard Meraki mesh software and the Openwrt installable
> software that can be loaded.
>
> The issue is, once the Openwrt software is loaded, It seems a bit hard to
> get back to the original software as it changes the disk structure and
> overwrites the orignal software..
>
> Putting the Genie back in the bottle appears complicated.
>
> Most of the units that have been imported have had this modification done
> to them as they are purchased by "tweakers"
>
> Hope that this helps somewhat.
>
> Regards,
> Gavin
>
>
>
>



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