Equipment used in the Pirate Wi-Fi unit.

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Equipment used in the Pirate Wi-Fi unit. Aug 19, 2013 20:48:50 GMT guy and deeds like this

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Post by Squiggley on Aug 19, 2013 20:48:50 GMT

Hello everyone !

We will be listing the equipment we are working with on here. Open to suggestions, questions and contributions.

The main unit that will be running the social network is the Raspberry Pi. But we are also playing around with the BeagleBone, but any embedded linux board with enough power will do.

Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone

We are playing with several boards from wireless routers but mainly using the TP-Link TL-WR702N, we are using OpenWRT to program the routers to mesh and work with the Raspberry Pi. So any router that you can flash with OpenWRT will work.

TP-Link TL-WR702N
TP-Link TL-WR702N board

We will create a separate thread on Antennas as these are easy to replace and modify.

More info and images coming soon !

All your base belong to pirates.

Doc_Aeon Guest	Equipment used in the Pirate Wi-Fi unit. Aug 27, 2013 21:33:44 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Doc_Aeon on Aug 27, 2013 21:33:44 GMT Any thoughts of using Ubiquiti equipment to tie together mesh clouds? They can do 15-20 miles line-of-sight easy, and get great throughput. They are also OpenWRT compatible.

Squiggley Administrator Posts: 25	Equipment used in the Pirate Wi-Fi unit. Sept 3, 2013 19:49:01 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Squiggley on Sept 3, 2013 19:49:01 GMT Have you got any links to it ? Sounds good.
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Equipment used in the Pirate Wi-Fi unit. Sept 16, 2013 2:03:01 GMT

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Post by Doc_Aeon on Sept 16, 2013 2:03:01 GMT

www.ubnt.com

Available from wifistock.co.uk and lots of other places.

Their forums & wiki have lots of programming and usage info.

Atheros boards running customized OpenWRT.

Come in a variety of form-factors.

A good usage example would be a pair of Nanobridge-M5 units tying together two different wireless-mesh groups at a distance of 18 miles. At that distance, using a 40Mhz channel, you could see speed of 40-50Mb. If you used a pair of the more expensive Rocket-Dish units and had a good clear shot, you could get closer to 100Mb over 20-25 miles.

There are a lot of small companies out there using Ubiquiti, Mikrotik and other gear to operate small WISPs (wireless ISP). Probably one in your area if you called around, and they'd be a good source of info.

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