OPEN-MESH Wireless Access Point OM1P Professional Wi-Fi Access Point & Router

By far the lowest price available on the net! $41.97 + S&H with the coupon code

This tiny yet powerful router & access point dropped from $48.95 to $41.97!

[*]Upgrade (hack) your Wi-Fi if you like, this router works with DD-WRT and openWRT

[*]You can even use this powerful router to share your internet connection and control who has access and for how long. For those entrepreneur types, there is a way to hook in a your PayPal or Google Checkout account and collect fees. See WiFiRUSH for details.

[*]You can connect many of these access points though a single internet connection and create a self healing “Mesh Network” that will find the best route to the internet. Custom fit jackets that make the OM1P weather-proof and fully out door capable are also available at WiFiRUSH

Use coupon code "getmeshy" for $7 off of the original price
Total becomes $41.97 + S&H

** Hurry - Sale ends at 11:59 PM on Friday 9-18-09

Here’s the linky:
WiFiRUSH Also, there are many other networking products and accessories that are available at WiFiRUSH.

Details:
The OM1P is an ultra-low cost professional wireless mesh router ideally suited for providing robust internet coverage just about anywhere you need to share a connection. Examples include hotels, apartments, neighborhoods, coffee shops, shopping malls, campgrounds, and marinas.

Each router is an access point, mesh gateway and repeater all in one tiny reliable package. It’s also two networks in one with both open (public) and secure (WPA) encrypted SSIDs so you can share a connection without sharing your data.

**For exceptional reliability, the OM1P includes a hardware watchdog chip that will restart the router should it lock up due to environmental or power spikes or short outages. This greatly minimizes truck rolls and customer service calls.

**Passive POE support means you can do longer-run Power over Ethernet installations making it easy to install outdoors, in ceilings or anywhere you have existing CAT5/6 cabling.

**2dbi onboard chip diversity antenna to reduce multipath distortion problems.

DD-WRT can do most of the things above non-automated (if you know how to set it up).

Here is a wireless N router with 2 antennas and is cheaper.

Airlink AR670W wireless router $31.00 S/F does DD-WRT!:
http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/hot-deals/952779

Do these mesh units have two radios in them? One for backhaul (wireless), and one for client computers? If not, then these are no better than any other DD-WRT router, mostly, but if they do, then this is a deal!

They support 2 simultaneous wireless networks; this is commonly used to provide 1 secure encrypted network allowing LAN traffic & another network that is open for public access. The public access network has a number of security features such as client isolation where clients have internet while blocking access to other connected users.

I know, that's a lot of technical mumbo-jumbo... It just goes to show you that they are simple to use, but are packed with many advanced features.

Danzilla said: Don't you just love brand new members that join just to hawk wares? ??? chunkychunkz was registered in July 2005.

jlbmw2002 said: velocitystar said: They support 2 simultaneous wireless networks; this is commonly used to provide 1 secure encrypted network allowing LAN traffic & another network that is open for public access. The public access network has a number of security features such as client isolation where clients have internet while blocking access to other connected users.

I know, that's a lot of technical mumbo-jumbo... It just goes to show you that they are simple to use, but are packed with many advanced features.I see a problem, if you don't understand this "technical mumbo-jumbo", do you really need this router then?That's exactly the reason for getting this access point. If you understand the "technical mumbo-jumbo" you would configure your DD-WRT router to create dual SSID's and VLAN's and set the routing to keep the 2 separate. If you want to have an open wireless network for your neighbors to have free internet while still keeping your own network safe, this may be the type of device you want to get.

One of the reason I got my D-link DIR-655 router is because it has a guest zone, but the D-link doesn't have the ability to limit the bandwidth. I don't think my Comcast has a monthly bandwidth cap and I don't want to find out the hard way. I've got the non-professional version of this from openmesh but have not played with it yet.

POE is not a common feature. I think this feature alone is worth the price.

velocitystar said: VirtuaL said: velocitystar said: They support 2 simultaneous wireless networks; this is commonly used to provide 1 secure encrypted network allowing LAN traffic & another network that is open for public access. The public access network has a number of security features such as client isolation where clients have internet while blocking access to other connected users.

I know, that's a lot of technical mumbo-jumbo... It just goes to show you that they are simple to use, but are packed with many advanced features.

Yes. But that still doesn't answer my question about dual radios. Dual SSIDs can easily be accomplished by single-radio units.

It's a single radio that can act as a repeater, essentially acting as a backhaul and access point at the same time.

The unique difference between the open-mesh and other software like the OEM firmware on a Linksys or DD-WRT is that the open-mesh unit is aware of all wireless pathways to the internet in it's range. It then determines the best path to the internet and creates a route. If that route fails, it finds another route from it's available neighbors and re-routes traffic... This is what makes it self healing, kind of like how the internet itself works. The 'node' is constantly checking for the best possible path to the internet, and if it finds a faster path in range (less hops or directly to the gateway), it will self optimize and re-route traffic. Pretty sweet!Yes, I have to admit: that is a very cool feature.

Add the $11 outdoor housing for this unit and the shipping for both jumps to nearly $16 to WA... That gives me pause on pulling the trigger.

•RF Power: 60mw (18dBm) isnt this a reason to go ddwrt?? with the power boost feature of ddwrt up to 200mw range would be greatly extended over this device no? linksys also sells the POE for the wrt54g series of routers

im not threadcrapping this is interesting and i dont know a lot about it but i do run ddwrt and the biggest advantage of it in IMO is the power boost capability

i'm considering setting up a for-pay wifi hotspot service for an apt building i own and the surrounding area. does anybody know what type of internet service you need to connect these routers to the net? i'm assuming you can't just hook up your standard dsl or cable model to it. around how much monthly are we talking for the dedicated service?

velocitystar said: It's a single radio that can act as a repeater, essentially acting as a backhaul and access point at the same time.

The unique difference between the open-mesh and other software like the OEM firmware on a Linksys or DD-WRT is that the open-mesh unit is aware of all wireless pathways to the internet in it's range. It then determines the best path to the internet and creates a route. If that route fails, it finds another route from it's available neighbors and re-routes traffic... This is what makes it self healing, kind of like how the internet itself works. The 'node' is constantly checking for the best possible path to the internet, and if it finds a faster path in range (less hops or directly to the gateway), it will self optimize and re-route traffic. Pretty sweet!
That is a nice feature, and that's why I'm interested, but without dual radios, a mesh gets lower and lower throughput the more hops it takes, until communications are at a standstill. A true mesh repeater will have dual radios. This is not a true mesh repeater if it only has a single radio.

collinong said: i'm considering setting up a for-pay wifi hotspot service for an apt building i own and the surrounding area. does anybody know what type of internet service you need to connect these routers to the net? i'm assuming you can't just hook up your standard dsl or cable model to it. around how much monthly are we talking for the dedicated service?

It depnds on your provider, though if your going to charge likely your competing and they would have probles, for that you'd need a T1 or T3 connection.

Our rural provider did not give a wit when I setup a hotspot (free) for the campground, I work with. Looking to wire the park now, so I don't have a bunch of car sitting around the store/laundry. They eve would provide a DSL charged by band width if we want to charge. Worth comtacting your local providers to see whats available.