[Techtalk] wireless home network without router

[Miriam English]

Hi Alina,

Mesh networks are completely decentralised. They operate peer-to-peer, 
with messages jumping from computer to computer in the mesh -- somewhat 
like the initial design of the internet (though now with many big 
companies working hard to centralise it, the internet is becoming 
dangerously vulnerable). Read more about mesh networks at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_network

Thanks Alina. It looks like Ad-Hoc was pretty-much what I wanted. Yay!

Cheers,

	- Miriam

Alina Friedrichsen wrote:
> Hi Miriam,
> 
> what do you mean with mesh networks? Ad-Hoc, IBSS, OLSR, something like that? If you instead mean, that you want to build a normal AP with your computer, you should look at the hostapd. With the right wifi card (I recommend ath9k or ath5k chipsets) you can build a normal Wifi router with it. You only need knowledge about linux networking from the command line.
> 
> I hope I could help you.
> 
> Cheers,
> Alina
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