[wsfii-discuss] Reviews of Meraki Mini Wifi Linux device

Wed Aug 1 20:05:03 UTC 2007

ramnarayan.k at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi
> 
> was interested to know how the meraki mini linux based wifi device 
> compares with the Linksys Wrt54 gl

Quite different - Atheros hardware with madwifi driver, can handle 2 (3 
with a trick) parallel essid's (eg. private and public, or managed and 
mesh for infrastructure).
It's basicly the same hardware as the Fonera (both made by Accton) - 
both are running on variations of OpenWrt, so they fully support OpenWrt 
kamikaze with the 2.6 kernel (and you can re-flash them with OpenWrt).

There are other 'identical' model out-there, with other name-tags (build 
as oem by Accton).

A company like http://ubnt.com/ makes other solutions based on the same 
Atheros platform.

Generally: Meraki Mini is quite good, and relatively cheap (and if you 
have a few technical skills very flexible). The stock system works - 
but, you have to do it the Meraki way ...

If you look for other alternatives, in terms of hardware:

www.compex.com.sg/

http://www.mikrotik.com/

The routerboard532 from mikrotik is quite funky if you run OpenWrt on it ...

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