DIY MESH WiFi with batman-adv and OpenWrt

DIY Wifi Mesh for everyone with commodity Hardware and Free and Open Source Software OpenWrt! The B.A.T.M.A.N. advanced protocol can be used to build a mesh of virtually any size ! Wired and Wi-fi ! In this episode we will build a Wi-fi mesh with 10 nodes in order to serve W-fi on 3 SSIDs everywhere in the house. I will use six triband mesh systems from Asus (Lyra MAP AC-2200, ASIN B072XT1CHN) in order to build a transparent fast-roaming (802.11r) Wi-Fi mesh (802.11s) network with Multiuser MIMO (MU-MIMO). Vendors like vilo, Amazon (eero), tp-link (deco), linksys (velop), asus (zenwifi), huawei (wifi mesh 7) are marketing mesh systems. In my oppinion however, the BEST MESH in 2022 is the one that you build on your own ;-)

0:00 what we do today
1:00 What is B.A.T.M.A.N. ?
2:10 Use cases
5:10 Setting up OpenWrt for Mesh
12:59 Installing B.A.T.M.A.N. advanced
21:40 Fast Roaming
22:30 batctl
23:30 Let's test it!
25:50 Conclusions

[Andrew-byyo]

I can't imagine how much time you invested in the production of this video, but your efforts are very appreciated. First class video as usual.

[Mikesco]

This channel is super underrated!!!
People pay a lot of money for the features he listed here and here it is done in s freedom respecting way.

[richchase]

At 13:36, sooo humble. Folks, "it's new" because Marc created it. Thanks, and thanks again for this great video!

[infinitelylarge]

This is one of the most helpful YouTube videos I've ever watched. I just got my mesh up and running. I can't imagine how hard it would have been without this video. Thank you so much. You're amazing! :-)

[djstraussp]

I've just bought 3 Asus Lyras for a killer price only to replicate this awesome tutorial, OpenWRT learning curve will skyrocket. Great content, I appreciate your efforts to build this content.

[ProfiteerMusic]

Can we get an updated video or writeup of this tutorial? I'd love to implement this in my home setup, but I've been coming across a LOT of issues with implementation and, unfortunately, can't find much documentation out there (especially on the github page).

[carlosfagomes]

very cool, Marc, and thanks for your work on providing luci support for the batman-adv proto. it will surely make the protocol accessible to a wider audience. if you don't mind, i'll add a reference to your video on my mesh tutorial.

[axiom]

Hi Marc, you made me reconsider mesh and actually go for fast roaming. I am so glad that I stumbled over your channel and all your great videos. I already use OpenWRT since more than a decade now but never explored it over standard features. Thanks a lot for all the work and keep going ;-) In diesem Sinne viele Grüße aus Dänemark ;-)

[arunkhan]

Mark, you are one of the best 🎉 Your content is well organized and succint. Better than those produced by multi billion dollars networking companies! Please keep up the good work 🙏

I'm reasonably good in setting up data networks.
You are able to explain a complex topic and its implementation so clearly, supplemented with diagrams.

[gasparem]

yet again. Incredible quality and detailed videos. Completely underated channel. Thank you for the hard work (Y)

[Blewis-Diarrheo]

I really appreciate these videos, even though in most all cases, I'll never need to do this in my 120 square meter flat with my single Belkin RT3200 running OpenWRT. Networking is really not my area, but I totally understand needing to do something for one's own edification, and that's why this channel is wholeheartedly satisfying.

[dexterfranco]

Thank you so much Marc for making this tutorial, it helped me setting up my EA8300 mesh easily. I hope you will cover more advanced functions of the BATMAN adv in the future. Many thanks.

[hegjon]

Thanks for the high quality content, I will look into this setup for my neighborhood

[MasterVader]

Awesome, I've been waiting for your next video to come out. Thanks man!

[stephendetomasi]

Word of warning about 21:15 - some devices include MAC addresses as part of backups (at least my YouHua WR1200JS did on 19.07.3) which can really cause some chaos. Otherwise awesome video Marc, top stuff!

[jeronimo]

Just fantastic! I will implement thins in my building! Congrats!

[GRODT_TWH]

Wow, why didn't I find our detailed videos before. Great video! thanks

[cokegen]

Mind-Blown and subscribed !!! Now I'll need to find me a month to digest all of this ...

[tracnunya]

YES! I now have 8 units meshed to my router THANKS

[AwesomeOpenSource]

Tremendously great as always! I'd love to see your take on Openwisp and how it might pay off in the effort to setup something like this, vs. the manual method of touching each AP individually.