Greetings, all!

I'm just starting to get into HSMM-MESH, and am loving it.  Admittedly, I've got zero experience with GHz frequencies, but the study is fascinating.

Just flashed about four WRT-54G's with great success.  Oh my goodness, is this an eye-opening and devastatingly cool use of older technology.

Come enter my brain for a sec...I need to know if bi-directional amplifiers (BDA's) would prove to be at all useful with long runs of LMR-400.  The story is, I've got a cemented 8' pole out back that I was originally going to use with an HF antenna.  Sadly, it didn't work out, and opted for a vertical for the moment.  However, I was thinking:  could there exist a potential opportunity to use this pole to mount a 24dBi parabolic WiFi antenna to use with a newly flashed HSMM-MESH router?  The game is afoot!

Here's the sad reality:  the LMR-400 run is 140'.  At first blush, I said forget it.  However, I've been reading about bi-directional WiFi amplifiers and started wondering.  My question is:  would there be any hope of using my 140' run of LMR-400 coax with one of my flashed WRT-54G's (with a 24 dBi parabolic)?  Would a BDA (or some other solution) make this dream a reality?

Please go easy on me, as I tend to be more of a dreamer than anything.  (LOL!)  If BDA's won't do the trick, is there something reasonably-priced that would work?

Thank you, thank you, thank you for reading this post, and dreaming-a-little-dream with me.  :)

Cheers, blessings, and 73s!
 

Todd
N9ZWY 

looks like I double posted too. 

*edit - accidental double post*

Hi All,

I have a wrt54gl that i would like to change back to factory or dd-wrt firmware.

I have tried various ways after trolling all the internet etc.

Any one on here have a sure fire way to do it.

Many thaanks,

Robin.

I have 5 routers for sale. All are flashed with version 3.1.0. They are all a G or GL models and have stock antennas and power supplies. 

Looking to sell them as a single lot. $100 paid with PayPal shipped to the lower 48. 

Thanks

Jesse - WC3XS

I am trying to get a mesh node and standard AP combo to work. I have done this before, but for some reason the mesh node seems to lack a WAN address, when the one that works has no trace of it. Something is different. The one that works is a GL, and the one that does is a Gv4.

So, I thought after doing a 30-30-30 reset and the problem persisted that I should retry flashing it.

Oddly enough, the .bin file cannot be used to flash the mesh node. So, how do I do a reflash when I sue Win10 (Linux not an option)? Do I upload the 3.1 tgx file, then select that to flash it again? or is the image shown in the system as 3.1 tgx a file-system image that can be uploaded internally for a reflash?

Very confusing, and I have no idea how to get this WAN issue to disappear. It does appear to impair connectivity through a gateway node.

FYI I have 1 GW node, 1 working comb of 2 Linksys running mesh + standard AP, and then 1 non-reliable combo of Linksys running mesh (both 54G's) the mesh node having that odd WAN behavior that propagates as a failure to find a gateway in the AP.

Ideas anyone?

Thanks, Don VA7IQ/AE7UP

I am trying to get a mesh node and standard AP combo to work. I have done this before, but for some reason the mesh node seems to lack a WAN address, when the one that works has no trace of it. Something is different. The one that works is a GL, and the one that does is a Gv4.

So, I thought after doing a 30-30-30 reset and the problem persisted that I should retry flashing it.

Oddly enough, the .bin file cannot be used to flash the mesh node. So, how do I do a reflash when I sue Win10 (Linux not an option)? Do I upload the 3.1 tgx file, then select that to flash it again? or is the image shown in the system as 3.1 tgx a file-system image that can be uploaded internally for a reflash?

Very confusing, and I have no idea how to get this WAN issue to disappear. It does appear to impair connectivity through a gateway node.

FYI I have 1 GW node, 1 working comb of 2 Linksys running mesh + standard AP, and then 1 non-reliable combo of Linksys running mesh (both 54G's) the mesh node having that odd WAN behavior that propagates as a failure to find a gateway in the AP.

Ideas anyone?

Thanks, Don VA7IQ/AE7UP

Quite some time ago I set a MESH but no one is close enough for a connection. I picked up a Netis WF2501 repeater for cheap and wonder if it's usable for MESH.

Bob W1CTC

Quite some time ago I set a MESH but no one is close enough for a connection. I picked up a Netis WF2501 repeater for cheap and wonder if it's usable for MESH.

Bob W1CTC

Quite some time ago I set a MESH but no one is close enough for a connection. I picked up a Netis WF2501 repeater for cheap and wonder if it's usable for MESH.

Bob W1CTC

Quite some time ago I set a MESH but no one is close enough for a connection. I picked up a Netis WF2501 repeater for cheap and wonder if it's usable for MESH.

Bob W1CTC

Quite some time ago I set a MESH but no one is close enough for a connection. I picked up a Netis WF2501 repeater for cheap and wonder if it's usable for MESH.

Bob W1CTC

To add nodes to the map, use the form at http://goo.gl/forms/G4AyoXa7d5.

To modify an existing node on the map,  use the form at http://goo.gl/forms/xJHuiuKim4.

Be sure to click on any node icon to display the detailed information relevant to that node.

I have a new node up just south of Newton, Utah in Cache County.

Stock antennas only for now, but I have an omni and a 24db directional I'll be installing as soon as I know where to point (Nibley perhaps?).

41.848984,-112.0046087