Hi,

I am brand new to this having attended a recent state RACES convention where Mesh was presented.  I got really jazzed and bought 4 routers off Ebay that arrived today.  One is a WRT54G Version 3 and the other three are WRT54GS Version 1 units.  All are running DD-WRT v24 SP2.  I was ready to flash the first one with mesh using the Admin/Firmware Upgrade when I vaguely remembered that you have to do something to dd-wrt first (erase parameters?  Killer?) so I stopped and started this post.

What is needed to mesh these units?  I am in Utah and it appears that only 3 nodes are on the map in the Salt Lake Valley so hopefully I can connect to someone.  I plan to mount one node outside, another in the shack, and setup two for portable use in public service situation.

Any help is appreciated

73, Dave - KD7UM

I received a post yesterday and with a bit of courage I loaded up two routers and they are setup and talking to each other - now the fun begins.  

I am now looking for some gain antennae so I can attempt to connect to something outside my home.  I am looking for some chat, file sharing, and other apps to shoot across the ether now.  I hope to find some keyboard to keyboard applications.  I plan to do a gateway to the Internet when I can lock it down a bit.

Thanks to the OM that posted the help and I am sure I will be asking more questions later

73