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Does Piratebox support wireless bridging or mesh? This is a super handy feature of dd-wrt (http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/index).

Speaking for the OpenWRT-implementation.

mesh is in preparation. There is already a mesh implementation done for the sister-project "LibraryBox. The code is contributed back to PirateBox. It still needs some tine addons to work nicely.

Bridging could be done with some configuration, I think. IMHO the 2nd device don't need to be a PirateBox.

http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/recipes/atheroswds

regards Matthias

Check out "The Serval Project" - it checks a few of your boxes, although it focuses more on securing and expand 1-to-1 communication than the community/BBS aspect.

Didn't think about using an old phone. I think I found the Android App on the Play store [1] but it requires root which likely removes the 'REALLY simple installer' requirement. [1]https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.fun2code.an...