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What is mesh networking?

One of the most important factors when discussing networking is topology. In basic terms, the topology describes how the various members (nodes) of a network are connected together. Most small networks (your office, your home) use a star topology, with a central node (a switch/router) connected to a bunch of clients (your laptop, smartphone, Xbox, etc.) The star topology dictates that if one client wants to talk to another (say, you want to send a photo from your laptop to your Xbox), the data must go through the central point (the router). The internet, in case you're wondering, because it's

What is mesh networking, and why Apple's adoption in iOS 7 could change the world
Why should you be excited about mesh networking?

The key reason for mesh networking being exciting is that it doesn't require centralized infrastructure. If you turn off your WiFi router, chances are your entire home network would cease to work. If you had a mesh network instead, everything would continue to work just fine (assuming they're still within range of each other, anyway). If you've used Miracast/WiDi to stream video directly from your smartphone/laptop to your TV, then you've already dabbled in mesh networking. And so we finally get to iOS 7's mesh networking capabilities, which Apple refers to as Multipeer Connectivity(Opens in a

What is mesh networking, and why Apple's adoption in iOS 7 could change the world

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r/HomeNetworking · u/akatherder · 1w ago

PSA: check your mesh satellite backhauls occasionally

I have a 50 foot ethernet cable in my basement connecting the router to an unmanaged gig switch. That gig switch has several things plugged into it: desktop, NAS, media server, printer, nvidia shield and one of my mesh s…

Hacker News · u/johnstockdale · Mar 25, 2026

Show HN: ADS-B Scope – Portable ADS-B and mesh radio on a LilyGo T-Display-P4

I built a portable 1090 MHz ADS-B receiver and Meshtastic mesh radio on a LilyGo T-Display-P4 (~$100). An RTL-SDR dongle plugged into the USB Host port receives aircraft transponder signals, decoded in real-time on the E…

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r/openwrt · u/LongQT-sea · 1w ago

WrtNova: flash once, fully configured on first boot — VLANs, WireGuard, WiFi mesh, AdGuard Home baked into the image

What it is A browser-based configuration front-end for OpenWrt. You select your device, fill in the settings you want (network, WiFi, VLANs, firewall zones, WireGuard, AdGuard Home, WiFi mesh, multi-WAN, etc.), and it pr…

r/openwrt · u/LongQT-sea · 2w ago

Looking for testers

Hey all, I've been working on a web UI, you pick your device and configure things like Wi-Fi, Guest/IoT network, WireGuard VPN client, AdGuard Home, mesh backhaul, VLANs, etc. — then it builds via the offcial OpenWrt Ima…

r/HomeNetworking · u/Fantastic_Simple76 · 3w ago

Found an unknown Chinese manufacturer device (Juplink) in my AT&T modem's device list. Wi-Fi is disabled, how did it get there?

Hey everyone, first-time poster here. I just set up a new router today and was configuring IP Passthrough on my AT&T fiber gateway at 192.168.1.254. While checking the device list at /cgi-bin/devices.ha, I noticed an unf…

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