[Olsr-dev] "Secure" Mesh networks

Bastian Bittorf (spam-protected)
Wed Feb 10 12:52:21 CET 2010


> > Note: if you have installed a protected mesh in my neighourhood, and I want to 
> > join: I would simply install an analog Babycam with a strong directional 
> > antenna sending a picture "let me in, tel: 1234" and waiit a couple of weeks.
> >   
> It would be an interesting test case -- you might shut down PART of the 
> mesh, but I think your effective radiated power would be breaking the 
> FCC rules for unlicensed transmitters, so what you might get in a few 

no,e.g. radio-amateurs can use the 2.4GHz-band with 40000 mW legally.
in practise people use babycam's and videolinks with 100mW and directional
antenna's: normal wifi is then nearly not possible and this is legal.

bye, Bastian.
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