https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wan/smartphone.usb.tethering
#openwrt + USB tethering = "free" backup internet 😅
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I managed to run OpenWrt on my Xbox 360.
(EDIT: For those who don't know, OpenWrt is an open-source operating system for network routers. In theory, it might also be possible to use an Xbox 360 as a Wi-Fi access point.)
Edited 262d ago
Going to be getting rid of my UniFi cloud key and ac pro lr and thinking about getting a EAP660 HD V1 second hand. Which I'll then flash #OpenWRT onto. Anybody else gone this route or maybe even uses the same AP ? Thoughts ?
📡 Battlemesh v18 is happening!
Join us from 7–13 September 2026 in Gornji Karin, Croatia, for a week of talks, workshops, hacking, testing, and collaboration around community networks, mesh networking, OpenWrt, and open communication infrastructure.
Participation is free and open to everyone.
Read the announcement and find all details here:
https://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV18/Announcement
Please share and help us spread the word!
#Battlemesh #CommunityNetworks #OpenWrt #MeshNetworking #FOSS
ISSA – Tools for Autonomy ⌂ ☀ ⏻ ▤
⟶ Islands of Conviviality
ISSA sits off-grid on the island of Vis: no roads, just a footpath. When we started there was no electricity, no water mains, and only a weak mobile signal.
⟟ Two years ago, with ISSA festival participants, we walked the hill with a big wifi antenna on a stick, hunting for 4G. ISSA itself is in a blind spot. ☀
Last year solar went up, giving us stable electricity, plus a rainwater system with a fog catcher.
⏻ This year we finally got online: a 4G solar-powered router 300 m below ISSA, relaying the signal uphill ↑ to the library. At the library, a solar-powered mini computer ▤ is waiting to join the Solar Protocol, a planetary network of solar-powered web servers run by artists Tega Brain, Alex Nathanson and Benedetta Piantella.
☀ → ☾ → ☀ Our server only runs when the sun shines; when it goes dark, another node in sunlight takes over. Every request is routed to wherever on the planet has the most light. Our little island is now part of a network that runs on weather.
#SolarProtocol #ISSA #Vis #OffGrid #OpenWrt
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I just set up an #OpenWRT One in my library's makerspace, so we could have all the machines on their own little network. Any suggestions for what else I should run on it? It's only got a gig of RAM, and definitely needs some external storage added too. I was thinking SyncThing?