meraki has started shipping their wireless mesh routers. The meraki mini costs $49. That is not a typo-- it is forty nine dollars. There is an outdoor version for $99 and it has range up to 750 feet, or up to 8km with optional third party antennas.

Meraki is now setting up a free mesh across San Franciso as a demonstration of a low cost mesh. So far they have 2800 nodes setup in San Francisco alone.

Wow. (Thanks to julie for the link.) ¶7:38 AM; digg