The Meraki and Fonera hardware can supposedly be flashed with OpenWRT
and DD-WRT. Being motivated by this thread, I flashed my Fon router with
DD-WRT. It seems to work like a charm. The flashing process is not the
friendliest.
Fonera DD-WRT Howto:
http://uselesshacks.com/?p=23
Meraki OpenWRT Howto:
http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Hardware/Meraki/Mini?highlight=%28OpenWrtDocs/Hardware/Meraki%29
The Meraki and Fonera hardware are reportedly extremely similar.
~Rob
Jessemyn Reid wrote:
> Access Humboldt is currently managing a wireless network in Rio Dell
> using several Meraki units under the current moniker "Digital Rio
> Dell". We're currently working to swap them out do to Meraki's
> overnight shift in a business model which left a funny taste in our
> mouths. They seem like great little devices if their technology were a
> little more open and users were able to localize the dashboard.
> Currently the system fails to operate if it can't communicate with
> Meraki's servers. Also since the shift in business model they can and
> do serve google ads on the "Standard" edition amongst
> other uncomfortable features.
>
> Aside from my political stance they seem like a great concept and from
> my experience they've been fairly solid. It'll be interesting to see
> how the mesh technology develops.
>
> Jessemyn Reid
> Access Humboldt
> http://public.meraki.com/network/digitalriodell
>
> On Dec 10, 2007, at 12:09 AM, Darrell Ross wrote:
>
>> http://public.meraki.com/network/eukota
>> mine is doing:
>> HundredAcreWoods - free public wifi throttled at 500 kbps
>> Peanuts - private wifi 3-6 Mbps
>>
>> :)
>> --darrell
>>
>>
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>> Darrell Ross
>> http://www.eukota.com
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