AlexH

Over the weekend I got my 2 WRT54G routers flashed with the Freifunk Firmware, which is an enhanced version of OpenWRT. It is very cool. Basically it turns your WRT54G or GS into a fully customizable Linux box, with a mesh networking protocol called OLSR.

My nodes are registered on the BC Wireless project as KerrisMesh and anyone can connect to them if they are running OLSR 0.4.8 with the ‘LinkQualityLevel’ set to 2 (sometimes called ETX).

I’d really like to see big chunks of Vancouver covered by mesh networks. It’s slowly starting to happen.