DIY Meshnet/Radio

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>>958230

Second pic.

>>958231

Oh yeah, forgot to mention: I have actual money, I have a job.

Other interested parties for a start.

>>958230
Im actually really interested in this my self.

>>958252

Awesome. Now, there need to be some type of getting started guide. There's this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Building_a_Rural_Wireless_Mesh_Network_-_A_DIY_Guide_v0.8.pdf, but it's from 2007, borderline unusable. There are tons of tutorials over on /r/darknetplan, but it's from reddit, and acknowledging reddit in a positive way is nearly a bannable offence here.

Where did you learn?

>>958230
I'd never heard of this term before now, but I know that during the umbrella demonstrations in HK they used an app (firechat or something) and bluetooth to circumvent the government literally shutting off the cell towers. Managed to cover most of the city center using only pocket technology, that's pretty cool.

What kind of scale are you thinking? Friends and senpaitachi or Ultra Secret International Conspiracy? Cus I think you need to think about sum PGP if you wanna the latter.

>>958319

Cell towers aren't necessary, ever hear about NinjaTel? (http://robotskirts.com/2012/08/02/ninjatel-the-hacker-cellphone-network/)

They were at Defcon20, and they used:

1. OpenBTS
2. Asterisk
3. A few USRP's from National Instruments
4. Their own sim cards

to provide service to about 250 phones: https://www.flickr.com/photos/hackaday/7686429840/

That's cool, and if I grow to eventually need something more powerful I can go with NuRAN: http://nuranwireless.com/products/gsm-litecell/

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>>958911
Fuck, I forgot the picture.

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And there's still Serval: http://www.servalproject.org/

>>958911
>>958912
>>958917
this is super cool.
cyberpunk revolution when?

I need to get Virtual Light for my Kindle holy fuck that book is cool.

>>958257
Reddit does have some good subs. I say that as someone who usually held others to go back there. Sometimes I'll be looking something up and it's literally the only information source.

I just don't like it when people think that 4chan can be used like Reddit.

>>958912
>fedora in the background

>>958257
>borderline unusable
How is this guide borderline unusable?
Only differences I see is changing the CAT line and newer routers that support Wireless N/AC

>>959368
Ok, so maybe not unusable, but literally all of the software has to be changed and updated.

Hey OP I saw something like this once, maybe you will find more info on it.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/11/how-a-group-of-neighbors-created-their-own-internet-service/

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RONJA

>>960964
That's awesome, but it's too big for what I was thinking of: Something along the lines of a mesh network: That's way, way too centralized.

>>960988
That's almost good enough, but it has three main problems:

1. It needs line-of-sight. Not possible if you're hiding from LE.
2. Interference: Trees, fog, birds, etc will degrade your connection.
3. Equipment & Setup: It's easy for someone to setup a wifi link. Teaching people to diy some complex, lazer beam system that has to be targeted and angled with a plumb line and fulcrum will be more complex.

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I don't know anything about mesh networking software but equipment would be trivial. You'd want some directional antennas to connect the routers together and then some high-gain omnidirectional antennas to cover the local area. And since the wireless GHz frequencies are not super-great for long distance stuff, and probably a antenna amplifier. However one thing to keep in mind is that strong signals point straight back to you for anybody doing SIGINT intercepts.

You might find this interesting:
https://hak5.org/episodes/hak5-1515

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>>962486
I was thinking about something like pic related because my location has very few lines of sight, and I might have to cast a wider net. But I like that setup, sauce?

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>>962486
>>962993

Ok, so the connector in the pic is from pic related, in this catalog: http://www.l-com.com/content/lcom-engineered-solutions-brochure-2015.pdf

But I can't find it on their website: http://www.l-com.com

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>>962486
>>962999
And we know from Wikimedia the pic is from 2007.

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>>962486
>>962999
>>963003

So combining all we know, that pic (>>962486) is probably from Lorento, Peru.

>>962486
>strong signals point straight back to you
Anyone who can move to three points can triangulate the location of a signal source. This is how deep space telemetry works.

>>961811
>LE
What is this?

>>958239
WOW, good for you man, keep it up !

>>961811
>hiding from LE.
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>>963465
Law enforcement. The 5-0. The po-po.

>>958230

I work for a WISP we tried using things like this in the beginning but now we can use off the shelf parts for less money and effort.

Sure not DIY but try getting 130+ Mbps through some old WRT54's

>>963498
Well, what model would you recommend? I'm going to try and get a yagi antenna sometime tomorrow, but what model router would you say is best? Bear in mind, though, I can't afford to spend 9001 dollars on enterprise ubiquiti hardware.

>>963490
I can't tell: Is this serious or not?

>>958230
Please report back on this i always see people ask about it but i want to know how well it works