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=== Repeater ===

The motivation for the repeater was to test extended range using the
(relatively clean and reliable) 5GHz band as backhaul and making shorter-hop
2.4GHz connections to users with 2.4GHz-only devices.

Equipment:

* Netgear WNDR2700v2 ("N600") WiFi gateway/router running OpenWRT
* Small sealed lead-acid battery (12v)

The battery was connected directly (with a fuse inline) to the router's barrel
jack power connector by canibalizing the wall-wart cabling; this router takes
12v DC input, so not conversion was necessary. The router pulled 6-11watts of
AC power (measured with Kill-a-Watt).  No special software efforts were taken
to reduce power consumption.

The router was configured to use the 5GHz radio as uplink (WAN) and to provide
general connectivity via the 2.4GHz radio (LAN), with mostly default settings.
This means the router ran an internal DHCP server (dnsmasq?) and handled all
aspects of client configuration locally, instead of forwarding request packets
on to the primary router in the basestation. A seperate SSID ("The Free Network
Repeater") was used.