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Introduction
Welcome to the Village Telco Wiki. This site contains documentation on various aspects of Village Telco technology and operation. If you're interested in learning more about actual Village Telco deployments, have a look at the Deployments section of the Village Telco website.
Mesh Node Hardware
There's no vendor lock-in with Village Telco. While we do manufacture the Mesh Potato, we recognise that there are many excellent WiFi manufacturers and for some scenarios, other hardware may be desirable. Accordingly we produce a Village Telco firmware for Ubiquiti and TP-Link hardware. If you have another OpenWRT-compatible device that you would like to see the Village Telco firmware running, please get in touch
Mesh Potato
Feature Comparison MP01 and MP02
Ubiquiti Devices
TP Link Devices
Mesh Node Firmware
Firmware Versions
- SECN 1.1 User Guide
- SECN 1.1 Manual de configuración de servidor Elastix para implementar Mesh Potato
Build Environment
How To Set Up a SECN Build Environment
Server Options for Village Telco
In the past, Village Telco developed its own server solution which comprised Asterisk and A2Billing with a simplified UI for A2Billing as well as an installation wizard. We haven't been able to continuously update this software combination and it has to some degree now been eclipsed by other options. You can read more about it Archives/Village_Telco_Server of this wiki.
Voice Billing
Standalone
- Freeswitch and vBilling (vbilling appears to have stopped development in 2012)
- Freeswitch and ASTPP
Cloud
Data Billing
Standalone
- daloRadius
- Radius Desk
- FreeSide
- there is a more extensive list on StartYourOwnISP
Mesh Network Monitoring
Not to be confused with standard networking monitoring tools like Munin, Nagios, Zabbix, and others, mesh monitoring tools measure the health of the mesh routes on the network. Some of them can do some of the monitoring that standard networking monitoring tools can do but the reverse is not true.
- LibreMap
- NodeWatcher
- NodeShot
- OpenWiFiMap
- Simple Unified Dashboard (SPUD) for mesh networks * note Spud is no longer under active development
HowTo Guides
General
Internet Content Filtering in SECN
Networking
Monitoring your Mesh Potato Network with Munin
Mesh Gateway Settings and Bridge Loop Avoidance
Optimizing dense meshes for call capacity and bandwidth
Testing Data Transfer Rates on a Mesh
SECN 1.1 Bridged Client Mode Operation
How To Set up SECN 2.0 MP01 as a Wifi ATA
Asterisk Configuration in SECN
Hardware
Adding a Reflector to the MP-01
Building a Serial Port for TL-WR703N
Serial Port Access and Firmware Recovery for MP-02
Serial Port Access and Firmware Recovery for TL WR842ND
Serial Port Access and Firmware Recovery for TL MR3020
Power over Ethernet for MP02 and TP-Link Routers
Using USB WiFi Devices for Dual Radio
Installation
OpenWrt Failsafe Mode and Flash Recovery
Uboot and OpenWrt Failsafe on the MP02
Flashing a Ubiquiti Bullet M2HP with SECN
Flashing the TL WR703n for the first time
Automating remote management via ssh/scp
Firmware Development
How To Set Up a SECN Build Environment
Legal
Deployments
Impact Research
Other
How to contribute
Resources
Village Telco Documentation
Wireless Networks in the South
Archives
Other Projects
WIP Updates to this page - work in progress
