AREDN or Amateur Radio Emergency Data network is a world wide WIFI (ish) network run by amateurs alongside other technoilogies to provide network when other options are failing.
Why Not just use standard WIFI?
You’ve worked your way through the setup of an AREDN node and eagerly jump over the the website to check if your node is on the map. Only to find that there’s nothing there.
The following must be done to show on the map.
There isn’t really a list of people who you can connect with. There are forums around the net where people ask for tunnel servers looking for new connections.
If you can;t find a Ham on onf the many forums, you can try the second idea I did. I took a look at the mesh map on arednmesh.org and found a node with some established tunnel connections. I then looke up the Callsign and snet and email to the address I found on QRZ.com
Most Hams are nice people and will assist if they can.
Once a agreement to connect is establlished, the server end will send you the client details to insert into your node.
As AREDN is a high bandwidth network based on WIFI, there are endless possibilities for solutions that can be implemented.
Resilient chat communications
PBX based on direct IP calling
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