A wireless mesh network (WMN) is a communications network made up of radio nodes organized in a mesh topology. The coverage area of the radio nodes working as a single network is sometimes called a mesh cloud. Access to this mesh cloud is dependent on the radio nodes working in harmony with each other to create a radio network. A mesh network is reliable and offers redundancy. When one node can no longer operate, the rest of the nodes can still communicate with each other, directly or through one or more intermediate nodes. The picture below illustrates how wireless mesh networks can self form and self heal. Openwrt suport WMN well. Plus WMN will extend communication distance. Node 1 to node 9 could be 4*maximum communication distance.
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