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 Subject :WHAT APPLICATIONS TO USE...... 2014-12-08- 04:44:52 
kd4ysh
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Hello, I have my nodes all set up now its time to set up a communication platform. I want to start out basic, just text and simple stuff later I will get into VOIP and VIDEO but what is a simple easy way for me to start out to send and receive info?  Any information will be much helpful thank you

Using the wrt54g routers


73's


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 Subject :Re:WHAT APPLICATIONS TO USE...... 2014-12-08- 13:55:33 
AE5CA
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Now that I have a network, what do I do with it? It seems to be a popular question with mesh. VOIP and Video seem to be the place where a lot of people start. IRC is another popular application. How is your Linux skills? Here is a couple things I can suggest. VNC This is an application where you can display the screen and remotely run another computer. I used it at field day to display the screen of the logging computers at our main site. XAMPP This is a simple to install web server that can run under windows. It also has a basic mail server. You can set up a simple website. You could even run Wordpress or Joomla on it. LAMP Server If you have an old computer sitting around, load linux on it. Set it up to be a Lamp Server. You can google step by step instructions. This would be a full feature web server. Postfix - Dovecot - Squirrelmail Again google is your friend. Step my step setup is available. Postfix will give you email on your mesh. Dovecot will give you pop access to it and Squirrelmail will add webmail. Samba Samba is a file server. Set it up and you can mount a remote drive over the network. VSFTP Will set up an ftp server on your computer. IRCD An Internet Relay Chat server for instant messaging. An old pc is more than capable of running a basic server. Many of these applications run on raspberry pi or Beagle Bone Black. I started out asking myself what applications would I use as work on the internet or what applications would be nice to have in an emergency. I will admit that some of these are advanced applications. But ask yourself what you want to do on the mesh and then research how do it. You can have all kinds of fun figuring out how to make some of these applications work. Clint, AE5CA
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 Subject :Re:WHAT APPLICATIONS TO USE...... 2014-12-09- 12:20:21 
kd4ysh
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What is the easiest program to use just for text? There are plenty of instructional videos on how to set up mesh network we need videos or demos on "APPLICATIONS" Please show the different applications in a video so a person can chose. Thank You
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 Subject :Re:WHAT APPLICATIONS TO USE...... 2014-12-15- 15:03:13 
kd4ysh
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Clint, Thank you friend for your info, what is the easiest, easiest program without a server just to text or send a file, just text would be great to make contact with other people in our mesh group. I hope later to get deeper into VOIP and VIDEO but now just plain text chat. I thank you again for your help 73's kd4ysh
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 Subject :Re:WHAT APPLICATIONS TO USE...... 2014-12-16- 05:06:18 
AE5CA
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I have been trying to find a good answer for you but I keep finding that a server seems to be involved. 


In windows xp there was a program called netsh.  I believe it would work like you want.Win 7 and 8 replaced it with a program called msg. It does not seem to work quite the same. 

If you were running Linux on your computers than a command called talk would be an excellent choice. 

There is an article on installing an irc server directly on your node on the website. I am not sure if it still fits on a wrt54g or not. 

II would recommend putting a server on one of your pc's. Do a google search on windows chat server freeware. You will find instructions and videos on how to set one up 
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 Subject :Re:WHAT APPLICATIONS TO USE...... 2014-12-16- 09:06:15 
k5dlq
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Found a Java serverless chat program here: https://code.google.com/p/kouchat


disclaimer: I havent tried it...
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 Subject :Re:WHAT APPLICATIONS TO USE...... 2014-12-17- 05:12:37 
kd4ysh
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Thank you friend I will give this a try. 73's kd4ysh
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 Subject :Re:WHAT APPLICATIONS TO USE...... 2014-12-17- 19:04:57 
ae5ae
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Clint, The IRC server I wrote about, NGIRCD, installs just fine under v3 with plenty of flash memory to spare. The memory issue on the WRT54G nodes, even the non-32M models, is a tad overblown. Plenty of stuff still fits on that box. FWIW, after ngircd-20.2 is installed it's ready to go, up and running; no manual configuration (such as using the shell or 'vi') is needed as in the earlier version. The real task becomes finding a decent client program for your PCs that won't limit you to a fixed set of IRC servers on the Internet (or makes it very difficult to add a new one).
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 Subject :Re:WHAT APPLICATIONS TO USE...... 2014-12-18- 06:17:13 
AE5CA
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Rusty, thanks for the update. I installed it years back on a 0.4.3 node and it worked well. It was a pretty simple install as I remember. I remember some discussion on clients. I was using mirc and it seems to working for me. Thanks again, Clint
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