For many years I had no wireless neighbors. A recent survey revealed crowded conditions. Needless to say our wireless connection has gone down hill. One AP just doesn't cut it any more.
To resolve my problem I looked at many options. All the options needed multiple base stations. My choices were multiple APs on differnet channels, WDS, or an ad-hoc mesh. I'm not sure which one I'm going to use but this HOWTO will cover a ad-hoc mesh network.
We are going to use OpenWRT on our Linksys WRT54G. The OpenWRT version is 7.07 (Kamakazi). I'm not going to cover installing OpenWRT. Please visit http://www.openwrt.org. Once you have OpenWRT installed continue on.
Before we install any packages we should update the package list.
> ipkg update
Next there are some packages to install. If you have other packages to install this would be a good time to do it.
> ipkg install olsrd olsrd-mod-dyn-gw microperl wl
The best thing about the new OpenWRT firmware is many of the settings are moved to configuration files. That means no more nvram settings. I keep copies of the config files on my computer for each setup.
Below are the configuration files for this setup. Just cut and paste.
Past the following into /etc/config
Paste the follwoing into /etc/config
This has been a usefull project. This setup has many more uses. Experiment and have fun.
