Mesh Networks
Mesh networking is a topic I have been exposed to for several years and yet; I have until now somewhat ignored the topic. I suspect primarily due to the fact that I have so many other interests. A friend mentioned the network in Puget Sound to me several weeks ago and then while at Sea-Pac I had an opportunity to listen to Bart Kus, AE7SJ discuss the development of that network. He has a WIKI at www.hamwan.org where you can learn more about there process and progress.
Here is a great video from http://hsmm-mesh.org/ where they introduce mesh networks and discuss using the WRT54G router to create mesh networks in the Ham bands.
I watched this last night and became even more interested. Below are two PDF’s of some presentation slides discussing the networks.
Here is another detailed video that shows how to configure your router to create your new node