Mobile JB-Mesh

Article with pictures can be viewed at http://www.moskaluk.com/mobile_jbmesh.htm

When you look at today network appliances i.e. cellular phones, palm devices, MP3 players et.al. you can think how small, well designed and portable they are. Most of them can fit into a shirt pocket.
Well here is my version, it is a MeshAP in a suitcase with a power box. It sure not small, it isn't elegant and it has a few pounds to it.

My wife bought me a hard cover attaché. Unfortunately it has a brand name of JB over it. My initials are DAM so you can see the dilemma I'm in. I don't want to hurt her feeling so I had to find a use for this case. I got the idea from mini-itx.com website. You know those guys put mini-itx into everything.

I call the device JB-Mesh. When I go to do a test site I bring along the JB with me. The JB-Mesh contains 8 dbi omni directional antenna, with 100 mW radio card running Locustworld dev 88. No key board, no mouse, no portable monitor and it runs as a repeater.

So far I have taken this up the street to see if it will connect with my other MeshAP. Sure it works. I guess the thing to do is buy a portable flat panel monitor and bring a keyboard and mouse.