I have been busy these last several months on building a new ham shack. I had to do this because the wife was getting tired of all the projects going on in my home office. Now the office can have it's own room back. I have moved into the new shack! It is a work in progress, I still have to put some shelves up and other items to make it complete. I now have a dedicated operating desk and a second desk for operating or working on projects. I also have a battery backup for the shack, I will be able to be on the air when the mains go out. I will post some pictures on a later blog. This does bring me to a problem of moving my BPQ node to the shack, the internet wireless connection is to far from the shack to use for a reliable connection. So what is a Ham to do? HSMM-Mesh! I played with this last night after upgrading 2 routers to 0.4.3, and let me tell you, it was easy to get the internet gateway up and running. Now I can work on moving my BPQ gateway to the new shack. This could also give me callsign look-up also. I do not need much else for internet in the shack so it will work great for me!
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Hi Jim, you make it sound easy, lol. Can you walk me through the steps that I would need to connect my 2 node mesh network to a internet gateway? My nodes are N8WQ-1 and N8WQ-2. I have a normal wireless internet connection in the shack on my desktop and my laptop. I plan on using my laptop with the HSMM-MESH.
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Make sure you are running version 0.4.3 on both. Then connect the WAN port to a LAN port on your internet router. This should give you internet on all Mesh nodes, be sure to stay part 97 legal if you are running as a part 97 mesh. Just connect your laptop to the other Mesh node and you have internet.
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