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Bob Mottram 9 years ago
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-| [[What is a mesh network?]] | [[The Freedombone Mesh]] | [[Installation]] | [[Wifi adaptors]] | [[Using the mesh]] |
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 * What is a mesh network?
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 The internet as it currently exists is mostly organised according to a client/server model. Servers run the web services and store the data and clients are the laptops, desktops and other devices accessing the servers. In a mesh network there isn't any clear division between clients and servers. The computers on a mesh network are known as "peers" and they can perform the functions of both clients and servers. Commonly this is also known as a "peer to peer" network.
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 The internet as it currently exists is mostly organised according to a client/server model. Servers run the web services and store the data and clients are the laptops, desktops and other devices accessing the servers. In a mesh network there isn't any clear division between clients and servers. The computers on a mesh network are known as "peers" and they can perform the functions of both clients and servers. Commonly this is also known as a "peer to peer" network.
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 After a few seconds your usual internet wifi connection should be re-established.
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 After a few seconds your usual internet wifi connection should be re-established.
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+For much more extensive details about deploying wireless networks there is an excellent book called [[http://wndw.net][Wireless Networking in the Developing World]] which is worth reading. It's not necessarily exclusively about mesh networks, but may be useful in terms of advice about antennas, reflections, extending wifi range and so on.

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 Installation is split into two categories, <i>routers</i> and <i>user devices</i>.
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 Whatever system you're going to use as a mesh router should have a new Debian Jessie install on it. It's advisable that this be a new install so that there is no existing software on the system which could confuse the mesh install process. Connect your system to your internet router with an ethernet cable, then ssh into it and type:
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 Whatever system you're going to use as a mesh router should have a new Debian Jessie install on it. It's advisable that this be a new install so that there is no existing software on the system which could confuse the mesh install process. Connect your system to your internet router with an ethernet cable, then ssh into it and type:
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 If you have a Tox client installed on your system then you can use that to communicate with other mesh peers. A limitation is that if peers change you may need to quit the application and restart it in order to receive the updated list of DHTnodes. The <a href="https://github.com/Tox/toxic">Toxic</a> client is installed by default, but you may also want to install <a href="https://github.com/tux3/qTox">qTox</a> or <a href="http://utox.org/">uTox</a> for a more conventional-looking user experience.
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 The Freedombone mesh uses a fully decentralized blogging system called <a href="https://github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroBlog">ZeroBlog</a>. It behaves rather like other peer-to-peer file sharing systems in that if you are reading the blog of another user you are also simultaneously seeding it to other peers (acting as both a client and a server). This allows the system to scale well, while also being robust to any peer failing or leaving the network.
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