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* Objective

*Project28 *aims at creating a wide and sustainable decentralised
telecom infrastructure based primarily on WiFi (and possibly other types
of) mesh networking in Egypt

* Strategies
** Open

Open aims to removing all legal barriers standing in the way of a legal
Wifi mesh in Egypt.

** Protect

Protect aims at offering legal and other forms of empowerment to
individuals and groups exercising their lawful, but not yet legal,
rights to privacy, communication, and economic autonomy

** Construct

Construct aims at creating a dynamic that allows for the emergence of a
Wifi mesh

* Criteria for choosing hardware

- Works with OpenWRT (FreiFunk folks offered making OpenWRT work for the
  most popular hardware in Egypt)
- Legally available (with original firmware) and affordable in Egypt

* Hardware

| *Make*        | *Model*          | *Notes* |
|-------------+----------------+-------|
| 3Com        |                |       |
| AirLive     | WL-5470AP      |       |
| Belkin      |                |       |
| D-Link      | 2730           |       |
|             | 2520           |       |
| Buffalo     |                |       |
| Gateway     |                |       |
| Huwaei      |                |       |
| Linksys     | WAG120N        |       |
|             | WAG320N        |       |
|             | WAP4410N       |       |
|             | X3000          |       |
| NanoStation | loco M2 ??     |       |
|             | AirMax 80Di ?? |       |
| Netgear     | N150           |       |
|             | DGN1000        |       |
| Siemens     |                |       |
| TP-Link     | TL-WA5210G     |       |
|             | TL-MR3220      |       |
|             | TL-MR3420      |       |
| ZTE         |                |       |
| ZyXEL       | NBG416N        |       |
|             | P-660HM-TXA    |       |
|             | P-660HNU-F1    |       |

* Wireless operating system:

- Freifunk: Based on the OpenWRT, Frei-funk firmware brings easy OLSR
  support to MIPS-based consumer access points, such as the Linksys
  WRT54G / WRT54GS / WAP54G, Siemens SE505, and others. By simply
  flashing one of these APs with the Freifunk firmware, you can rapidly
  build a self-forming OLSR mesh. *Freifunk is not currently available
  for x86 architecture machines (need to check that out).*

* Resources:

- [[http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Making-of-a-Beast-WRT54G-Mods-Part-One/][/http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Making-of-a-Beast-WRT54G-Mods-Part-One//]]
- [[http://www.skifactz.com/wifi/index.htm][/http://www.skifactz.com/wifi/index.htm/]]
- [[http://wndw.net/download.html][/http://wndw.net/download.html/]]
- [[http://wiki.freifunk.net/OpenHardware][/http://wiki.freifunk.net/OpenHardware/]]

