Hi Gavin,<br><br>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. <br><br>
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".
<br><br>We had some people abuse the system and I added bandwith throttling tools to it and so it was pretty robust.<br><br>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.
<br><br>Hence my interest in the meraki and linksys. However I have never upgraded firmware and am basically looking for someone to hold my hand.<br><br>Hafeez<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/20/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Gavin Jackson</b> <<a href="mailto:gavin@toolernvale.com">gavin@toolernvale.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Hi,</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">You have not quite explained what you are wanting
the Meraki's for ?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">There is the standard Meraki mesh software and the
Openwrt installable software that can be loaded.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">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..</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Putting the Genie back in the bottle appears
complicated.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Most of the units that have been imported have had
this modification done to them as they are purchased by "tweakers"</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Hope that this helps somewhat.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Regards,</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Gavin</font></div>
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