[MLB-WIRELESS] Meraki's

Hafeez Bana hafeez.bana at gmail.com
Mon Sep 24 16:57:56 EST 2007


Peter,

It is very possible to do this. The node I had had tc 4 linux controlling
the bandwidth. I don't know if this is possible to with the wrt and meraki
mods.

Hafeez

On 9/22/07, Peter Berrett <berrettp at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
>
> 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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