[Battlemesh] What hardware still works?

Paul Gardner-Stephen paul at servalproject.org
Mon Mar 14 13:06:05 UTC 2016


Hello,

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 11:13 PM, Valent Turkovic <valent at otvorenamreza.org>
wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 2:41 AM, Paul Gardner-Stephen <
> paul at servalproject.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> We are interested in joining the conversation with them to find an
>> alternative platform for use in our Mesh Extender devices, instead of the
>> TP-LINK devices.  I suspect that anything that is useful for us, will also
>> likely be useful for the community more generally.  One of the things we
>> would love to see is a router with a large on-board secondary flash
>> storage, instead of having to hang storage off the USB2 port, which apart
>> from anything else consumes quite a lot of power.
>>
>> Paul.
>>
>
> What it the price point at which you would go for? Would you go for board
> that is 3x the price of TP-LINK board is it was open hardware and certified
> with FCC?
>

Unsure. Our humanitarian driven use-cases are somewhat price sensitive.  If
the cheapest compliant device was around US$100 instead of US$20 - $30,
then we would probably be forced to look at making our own devices
(although we don't have the money for doing this at the moment).

Paul.


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