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
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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.
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I've used these Open-Mesh units to install Wireless Internet Access for several Hotels. The best part about using the OM1p is how simple they are to setup. You don't need to be a techno-geek to get them going. Another cool feature is that you can monitor who is on your network and check the health on all of your devices from any web browser, from anywhere in the world.
dawpa2000; I like DD-WRT too. Sebastian from DD-WRT has done a great service to liberate cheap hardware and empower people to get the most from it... However, DD-WRT is far from simple to use.
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!
Message edited by: VirtuaL on 2009-09-16 19:53:40 CDT
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.
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?
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.
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.
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!
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.
does it use alternating channels to send and receive at the same time ? A send to B on channel 1; B send to A on channel 6; to avoid half-duplex super latency of bridging with many nodes?
taipan said: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.
The outdoor housing includes the POE injector... for $11. A an injector by itself is usually between $10 - $25.
•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
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