Some wifi mesh products
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The post series we are writing here is the resultant of wifi mesh network installations happening at Saidapet, Srinagar colony, Chennai. The mesh networks at Chennai is now up and running. We started load testing in the network and we will apply enhancements to the networks soon to boost signal strength and manage traffic.
The mesh products that I am planning to test out are
Meraki is a nice product and from my previous experiences with it, it has performed well. I myself have a meraki mesh running at my home. But their product is good only for the basic version. The version with more features are costly and their business plans are really sucks.
Meshcom provides firmwares for router manufacturers and operates in a different fashion compared to other mesh router companies. They are strong business wise and has got many tie ups in place. A few months back they had a windows mesh driver available on their site for free download. But now its not there. Now I am being asked to fill in a form. Anyways Ill look at it later.
Open-mesh is the Meraki killer. It offers as many features as the Meraki with a lesser cost. If meraki is windows, open-mesh is linux. Meraki kind of cheated its fans. I was a hard core meraki fan. But now Im an open-mesh fan. The hosted interface for configuring open-mesh routers is really good and more and more features are being added daily.
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008 at 11:09 am and is filed under My thoughts, wireless. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
I have been poking around this site after seeing referrals to our site from this page. http://www.iamatechie.com/interview-with-antonio-anselmi-from-open-mesh/
I’m not sure why it is showing up as a referral but it brought me here anyway.
We are developing our own self healing wifi mesh networks. Its all based on dd-wrt firmware. We made our ownspin off that has a scanner repeater.
When you go to our site you will see is is mostly about our captive portal system.
People are setting up semi large mesh networks with the WiFi Gator, by setting up series of 5 or more repeaters, etending the wifi range 1000 feet or more.
The idea is to set up many repeaters on one internet connection and giving each of them a branded wifi captive portal.
Just thought you might be interested
Cheers
Loreww