I live in a home surrounded on 3 sides by houses and tall trees and on 2 sides by 200' hills with buildings on them. The nearest burgeoning mesh network is 23 miles away. According to Air Link I could have a link if I had a 300' tower which isn't going to happen. The primary driver of that mesh group wishes to make a tunnel. I thought I might install something small like a 2.4 GHz Picostation, Nanobridge, or Nanostation for him to tunnel to. Any recommendations? There is no likelihood that a multiple node mesh will develop near my home.
I would purchase an AirRouter HP for about $65. We just added support for it in the latest beta release. It acts similar to the old Linksys WRT54G but it runs 600mW RF output... and it even has a removable antenna (RP-SMA) We've configured the switch to support WAN (including tunnel), DtD-linking to another node, and 3-ports for local LAN devices.
I have one sitting on my home-office desk and it connects to a node I have on high-ground, over 3 miles away!
Got a question though; will it allow me to be only a tunnel server or a client, a tunnel server & a client, or both at the same time (more than one tunnel)?
Hi Darryl,
Yes I have several PicoStations in operation. They make a very nice high power unit along with my laptop as a portable system.
Paul...
I live in a home surrounded on 3 sides by houses and tall trees and on 2 sides by 200' hills with buildings on them. The nearest burgeoning mesh network is 23 miles away. According to Air Link I could have a link if I had a 300' tower which isn't going to happen. The primary driver of that mesh group wishes to make a tunnel. I thought I might install something small like a 2.4 GHz Picostation, Nanobridge, or Nanostation for him to tunnel to. Any recommendations? There is no likelihood that a multiple node mesh will develop near my home.
scott
scott
I would purchase an AirRouter HP for about $65. We just added support for it in the latest beta release. It acts similar to the old Linksys WRT54G but it runs 600mW RF output... and it even has a removable antenna (RP-SMA) We've configured the switch to support WAN (including tunnel), DtD-linking to another node, and 3-ports for local LAN devices.
I have one sitting on my home-office desk and it connects to a node I have on high-ground, over 3 miles away!
Andre, K6AH
Thanks, I will look into one.
Bought one, on the way.
Got a question though; will it allow me to be only a tunnel server or a client, a tunnel server & a client, or both at the same time (more than one tunnel)?
Same as Darryl's answer ;-) http://www.aredn.org/content/just-so-i-understand
I purchased an AR-HP and wanted to know when 3.16 will likely be released or can I do the beta version?
scott
I've configured 2 ARHP units and they work fine. I've installed hamchat and tunnel client. We're getting ready to test the tunnel client now.
Just tested the tunnel client on the Air Router and it seems to work just fine.
I wouldn't hesitate to use the beta version. As a member of the dev team I've been using it since before it came out in beta. It's a great product.
Andre, K6AH
thanks