2018-01-03 - Re: [GRASE-Hotspot] Repeater over AP on grase hotspot

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From: Bob Hunt <bo***2@gmail.com>
Message Hash: 84af5c2a9d259743beae996ff055d99d44223f3282f3d29ee2d2f33d98de5693
Message ID: <CAA-jMMQ_pjdSKo6u+L7NcH_rJmXJx7jdF6KEpVBnXidmSMnkAg@mail.gmail.com>
Reply To: <c5e03d7d-4dae-42ba-82ad-454ca3503741@grasehotspot.org>
UTC Datetime: 2018-01-03 23:52:04 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2018 17:52:04 +1100

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Hi Gerard,

My Grase setup works fine in a rural village situation, with around 20
nodes running "secn" mesh firmware downloaded from https://villagetelco.org,
on Ubiquiti and TP-Link atheros devices.  The site also has a webstore with
ready to use mesh devices available. As Tim mentioned, the secret is having
the connections handled on layer 2 (mac address layer), which this mesh
setup does.  There are also other mesh devices around but this is the only
one I have any experience with.

Cheers,

Bob

Bob Hunt
20 Clarke Street
Wyndham, NSW, Australia, 2550

Phone: Landline 0264942030  Voip 0264368018  Mobile 0424472618

On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 1:58 PM, Gerard Pacete <ge***1@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thursday, January 4, 2018 at 9:27:43 AM UTC+8, bob.hunt.52 wrote:
>>
>> Hi Gerard,
>>
>> This may be the same problem that I encountered using Grase over my mesh
>> network. The solution was to setup the mac addresses of all the repeater
>> nodes with computer accounts on the Grase server, so that Grase allows
>> traffic from those nodes.
>>
>
> Hi Bob,
> Glad to see response that fast, i tried ur idea just now and it didnt work
> as well. Thanks by the way.
>
>
> On Thursday, January 4, 2018 at 9:34:27 AM UTC+8, timwhite88 wrote:
>>
>> Hi Gerard
>>
>> This is normally an issue with how the repeater functions. The
>> repeater is a "client" on the Wifi network, and all the clients "hide"
>> behind the 1 client. (Like NAT). You need WDS or similar, to be able
>> to get proper Layer 2 over the Wifi. Often this means you'll need a
>> WiFi AP that is compatible with the repeater, so that they can do the
>> correct WDS that is required.
>>
>> Any chance you can run a cable to each extra AP? That doesn't required
>> compatible Wifi AP and repeater, as you just have multiple AP's with
>> the same SSID and the clients will "roam" between them when the signal
>> strength drops.
>>
>
> Hi Tim,
> First of all, thank you very much. Understand. Now we are getting into
> option to wire multiple APs. It will be quite a bit difficult though look
> like this is the easier way as we tried several repeaters and routers and
> we cannot get to work even one repeater up. :(
> We have limited budget too that i cant buy more devices to test.
> Anyway, thank you again and more power!
>
>
> - Gerard
>
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