What you are talking about has been done in Australia on Android smartphones: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/01/researchers-enable-mesh-wifi-networking-for-android-smartphones.ars
That site has a demo video of it too. Mel On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 16:12 -0400, si...@mungewell.org wrote: > > If you have not done it yet, have a look at their short front page add. > > Very succinct (and cool-:). > > Village Telco Explainer 1:14 > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S30M_nigtcs&feature=player_embedded > > Cool video... > > When you look at the (approximately) $100 price tag, you might have a hard > sell to get people to start playing with in. > > The key a project like this is the infrastructure and the software which > goes with it. Given that the hardware is rapid turning commodity I suggest > that you play with the software and get some experience/understanding in > that. > > For example if you (or anyone else) has a smart phone you should have the > all you need to: > 1) Enable the wireless in some mesh capable/adhoc mode > 2) Sync and pass data across the mesh > 3) Make a VoIP call. > > If you want a cheap(er) hardware solution look to modifying consumer > wifi-routers. Ideal these need some ATA (Analogue Telephone Adapter) to > recreate the MeshPotato, but if you're providing service to cell phone > owners why couldn't the back haul be Wifi only (or even Bluetooth > networking). > > As a side I did think that this would be a great 'disaster-recovery' > project, being able to 'drop' a solar powered mesh wifi phone booth in a > disaster zone... > > Thinking a little out the box, how about a mesh wifi network set up as a > captive portal which offers a flash/java/java-script soft phone to > download/run in place? > > Simon. > > PS. I'm willing to bore you all silly if you catch me at the next meeting ;-) > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
