[MLB-WIRELESS] Meraki's

[Peter Berrett]

Hi Hafeez

Its I funny you should mention this because I was pondering about this 
kind of a setup myself the other night. I had read about how some 
generous people had made the internet freely available but then realised 
that if someone leeched too much it would cause problems with download 
limits.

I did the maths regarding throttling. At 10k/s continuous this would 
equate to 600k/minute thus 3.6 meg/hour thus 86.4 meg per day thus 
roughly 2.6 gb per month.
So lets say you have a 12 gb download limit  you could probably service 
say 5 users at 10k/second continuously. One would probably have to halve 
that if uploads are counted eg 2.5 users @10k per second. But very few 
people would use such a low speed connection continuously over a month 
so chances are a much larger number of people could be serviced. Also 
the extra nightime download limits allow a bit more breathing space.
   
So after all that one could probably set up a free internet node 
throttled back to say 20k per second and then adjust the speed according 
to the level of demand ie if download limits get exceed the speed could 
be throttled back further. The might also be different throttling speeds 
depending on the time of day.

It is definently doable and as you say, seems like a good way to get to 
know the neighbours.

Regards Peter




Hafeez Bana wrote:
> Hi Gavin,
>
> A while ago I setup a suite of software on my wireless linux box that 
> had a dlink card that allowed me to publish that my AP was open for 
> free internet access but the person using it had to call me.
>
> I made a lot of friends this way and I also got to speak to neighbours 
> who I would never have the courage to talk to. The AP kind of evolved 
> into a really strong nice mini community of it's own - what I call 
> "Neighbour 2 Neighbour networking".
>
> We had some people abuse the system and I added bandwith throttling 
> tools to it and so it was pretty robust.
>
> I have been thinking if it is possible to set something up that in a 
> simple little router rather then having a whole linux box.
>
> Hence my interest in the meraki and linksys. However I have never 
> upgraded firmware and am basically looking for someone to hold my hand.
>
> Hafeez
>
> On 9/20/07, * Gavin Jackson* <gavin at toolernvale.com 
> <mailto:gavin at toolernvale.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>      
>     You have not quite explained what you are wanting the Meraki's for ?
>      
>     There is the standard Meraki mesh software and the Openwrt
>     installable software that can be loaded.
>      
>     The issue is, once the Openwrt software is loaded, It seems a bit
>     hard to get back to the original software as it changes the disk
>     structure and overwrites the orignal software..
>      
>     Putting the Genie back in the bottle appears complicated.
>      
>     Most of the units that have been imported have had this
>     modification done to them as they are purchased by "tweakers"
>      
>     Hope that this helps somewhat.
>      
>     Regards,
>     Gavin
>      
>      
>      
>
>
>
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