Building a Rural Wireless Mesh Network
A do-it-yourself guide to planning and building
a Freifunk based mesh network
Version: 0.8
David Johnson, Karel Matthee, Dare Sokoya, Lawrence Mboweni, Ajay Makan, and Henk Kotze
Wireless Africa, Meraka Institute, South Africa
30 October 2007
Building a Rural Wireless Mesh Network
A do-it-yourself guide to planning and building a Freifunk based mesh network
First edition, June 2007
Version: 0.7 pre-release
Second edition, August 2007
Version: 0.8 pre-release
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© 2007, Wireless Africa Team of the Meraka Institute
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provide suggestions, corrections and feedback on how the DIY guide
was
used
in
your
project to establish\expand
your mesh
network, online
at:
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