On 2014-07-24 12:04, Valdis Kletnieks wrote:
So the EFF is pushing development of an open CPU router
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/building-open-wireless-router
https://openwireless.org/
It's currently targeting WNDR3800's and based on the CeroWRT software
(which works pretty well in my own experience).
What will possibly be interesting in this forum is that it's explicitly
targeting having open guest wireless access (unlike the stuff being
pushed
by some ISPs, where you can roam but only to other customers of the
same
ISP).
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The Free Network Foundation (which I co founded and am CTO of) has been
helping several groups in the USA do this for ~1 year now. EFF is simply
rebranding/respinning community networking, but they are pretty new to
the USA Free Networks party overall. They just have a bigger
budget/brand recognition (though FreedomTower has become a pretty
resilient brand based on the e-mails we get on a daily basis). Also I'm
not sure of the level of support/hand holding/documentation etc EFF will
provide for folks wanting to build a network off this setup (I'm
guessing not much). Also most incumbent carriers prevent sharing (where
FNF supported/assisted/collaborative/affiliated US based efforts back
haul (over high capacity wifi or VPN over incumbent circuits) to
wholesale colocation facilities POP and do things like monitor abuse@
contacts etc. (Ya know, actually responsibly run an ISP).
I'd rather of seen them partner with FNF, (or actually much more
preferable would be upstream wrt projects like QMP) and not spin YET
ANOTHER FIRMWARE.
I'm glad they picked CeroWRT though.
