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Meshcube: A New Mesh-Routing Wireless Device

Posted by timothy on from the edge-cases dept.

jazzgroove writes "The Meshcube is a new wireless mesh routing device based on open source technologies. It's quite feature rich with support for VPN and IPSEC which come from the meshcube distribution. Apparently you can buy the device as a kit and build it yourself or buy it pre-built. For more information have a look at the wiki."

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  1. Nice product - terrible price... by Shoeler · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It makes Linksys' WRT54G look like an amazing bargain - especially because this runs a MIPS processor, has the same amount of RAM, and there's a (purportedly) bigger developer base for the WRT54G...

    And the Linksys can be had on ebay for $100.

    1. Re:Nice product - terrible price... by borroff · · Score: 4, Interesting

      And if I'm not mistaken, there are already a number of alternative OSes for the Linksys. Why not hack the linksys to add mesh features instead?

  2. Re:Okay, I get the idea by LondonLawyer · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Pretty much what I was thinking. The 'London Wireless State of Play' story which was on Slashdot a few weeks back had some interesting geek density calculations which help explain why the Consume mesh project hasn't really taken off here yet. Kits like this need to be cheap to buy and easy to use so that they can become ubiquitous. This doesn't look to be either.

  3. http://www.soekris.com by puzzled · · Score: 4, Interesting



    Before buying a meshcube you might want to take a look at http://www.soekris.com

    I have two pairs of the Net 4511 machines as wireless bridges and a spare that I use for play. I've made OpenBSD fit into 16 meg of flash using the OpenSoekris script. There is a Linux based appliance type OS from http://www.mikrotik.com that also runs on the platform and it does all sorts of Magic(tm).

    This is an interesting announcement but Soekris has the track record to judge by the amount of talk about them on the wireless ISP mailing lists.

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