This technology was developed by several vendors for military communications systems and for OLPC (One Laptop Per Child<\/a>) programs in Africa and other places. Each link acts to extend the boundaries of the network, thus the more users there are, the more useful the network becomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Advantages of mesh networking:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Several specific routing protocols have been developed for the network side of the system. Hazy Sighted Link State Routing Protocol (HSLS<\/a>), BATMAN<\/a>, OLSR<\/a> HWMP<\/a> and others. These work well with the existing 802.11 a\/b\/g wireless network hardware currently available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the host side, a good IBSS-capable wireless network adapter is needed, which many of the newer ones are.\u00a0 Several of the software programs have lists of WLAN adapters that work with their software.\u00a0 Open Garden is a free App for Windows, Mac OSX, and Android, and they are working on an iOS version.\u00a0 This leaves out certain devices like tablets and iPhones for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since existing wireless adapter drivers do not yet support mesh networking, usually an additional piece of software is needed.\u00a0 There are several interesting ones, including HSMM-MESH<\/a>, which was developed by Amateur Radio operators.\u00a0 Open-source programs<\/a> for Linux<\/a>, Free BSD<\/a> and other are available as well as commercial versions <\/a>for Windows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I was thinking that this might be useful for broadcast applications.\u00a0 For obvious reasons, this type of system would work best in densely populated urban and suburban areas, which is exactly the type of area in which LPFM licenses might be hard to come by.\u00a0 For those who do not have the time or wherewithal to apply for an LPFM license, or for those that simply don’t get a license due to scarcity of available channels, this could be a great way to cover a neighborhood or section of a city.\u00a0 The more people participate in the mesh network, the stronger the network becomes.\u00a0 Additionally, by using FCC type accepted part 15 FM and AM transmitters as broadcast nodes, carrier current transmitters, and leaky coax systems, the presence of the mesh network can be advertized to potential listeners, including directions on how to take part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wireless LAN bridges or broadband internet connections can act as a backbone between distant nodes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For bandwidth efficiency sake, AOIP services should be limited to multicast addresses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A good site with more wireless mesh network information is http:\/\/wirelessafrica.meraka.org.za\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Two subreddits on the subject: \/r\/meshnet<\/a> and \/r\/darknetplan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Then there is project meshnet<\/a> and the project meshnet wiki<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Oh, by the way, go ahead and ask me what I have been learning about in school these days…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wireless IP Ethernet (802.11) technology has been around for a while.\u00a0 Many know it as “WIFI” but you could also call it “WLAN” or something similar.\u00a0 Like many other Ethernet technologies, WLAN relies on a spoke and hub connection system.\u00a0 The hub is the wireless access point or router and the individual hosts (PCs, tablets, … Continue reading The neighborhood Mesh Network<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,4],"tags":[36,117],"class_list":["post-5892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it","category-tech-stuff","tag-internet","tag-streaming-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5892"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11478,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5892\/revisions\/11478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Wireless](\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/465px-WirelessMesh.png\")
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