SMesh Alternatives

SMesh is described as 'seamless wireless mesh network being developed by the Distributed System and Networks Lab at Johns Hopkins University. It provides peer-to-peer connectivity, Internet connectivity, and fast handoff to mobile clients across the mesh' and is an app in the security & privacy category. There are more than 10 alternatives to SMesh for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, OpenWrt and BSD. The best alternative is GNUnet, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like SMesh are cjdns, Phantom, LibreMesh and Qaul.

SMesh alternatives are mainly Anonymizing Networks but may also be Privacy Tools. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of SMesh.

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SMesh

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Anonymizing Network

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GNUnet
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Free • Open Source
Anonymizing Network
Mac
Windows
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BSD
52 alternatives to GNUnet
GNUnet is a framework for secure peer-to-peer networking that does not use any centralized or otherwise trusted services. A first service implemented on top of the networking layer allows anonymous censorship-resistant file-sharing.
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1. DecentralizedGNUnet is based on a decentralized infrastructure with no single entity controlling it.
2. Privacy focusedGNUnet is considered a privacy friendly alternative.
Anonymous Secure Filesharing
Decentralised Name System
Modularity
Overlay network
Peer-To-Peer
Mesh network
Distributed
cjdns
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Free • Open Source
Anonymizing Network
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BSD
29 alternatives to cjdns
Cjdns is a networking protocol and reference implementation, founded on the ideology that networks should be easy to set up, protocols should scale up smoothly, and security should be ubiquitous.
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1. Decentralizedcjdns is based on a decentralized infrastructure with no single entity controlling it.
Peer-To-Peer
Distributed
Mesh network
Support for IPv6
Phantom
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Free • Open Source
Anonymizing Network
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Linux
23 alternatives to Phantom
The Phantom protocol is a system for decentralized anonymization of generic network traffic. It has been designed with the following main goals in mind:
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1. DecentralizedPhantom is based on a decentralized infrastructure with no single entity controlling it.
Online Anonymity
Encrypted Connection
Peer-To-Peer
Discontinued
No more updates on their website since 2011.
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LibreMesh
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Free • Proprietary
Linux
OpenWrt
LEDE - Linux Embedded Development Environment
22 alternatives to LibreMesh
LibreMesh is a set of modules extending the OpenWrt router distribution to create self-configuring wireless and wired mesh networks.
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1. DecentralizedLibreMesh is based on a decentralized infrastructure with no single entity controlling it.
Based on Debian
Mesh network
Distributed
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Qaul
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Free • Open Source
Mac
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Linux
C++
15 alternatives to Qaul
Ad-hoc wireless mesh-network suite that harnesses the power of everyday devices such as computers and smartphones to create a Democratic, Non-Centralized, Mesh Network.
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Mesh network
ninux
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Free • Open Source
Linux
26 alternatives to ninux
Ninux is an Italian wireless network community with the goal of creating and expanding a free, open and experimental computer network. It uses the OLSR (Optimized Link State Routing) Protocol, an IP routing protocol optimized for mobile ad hoc networks.
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Wireless
Linux-based
Mesh network
Bypass Censorship
Online Anonymity
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CCNx
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Free • Open Source
Privacy Tool
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Apple TV
21 alternatives to CCNx
The vision of Project CCNx® is to develop, promote, and evaluate a new approach to a communication architecture called content-centric networking.

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CoovaChilli
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Free • Open Source
Linux
Ubuntu
OpenWrt
19 alternatives to CoovaChilli
CoovaChilli is an open-source software access controller, based on the popular (but now defunct) ChilliSpot project, and is actively maintained by an original ChilliSpot contributor.
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Access Control
telehash
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Free • Open Source
Mac
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Linux
JavaScript
17 alternatives to telehash
Encrypted private mesh-networking protocol.

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Babel (protocol)
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14 alternatives to Babel (protocol)
Babel is a loop-avoiding distance-vector routing protocol for IPv6 and IPv4 with fast convergence properties. It is based on the ideas in DSDV, AODV and Cisco's EIGRP, but is designed to work well not only in wired networks but also in wireless mesh networks, and has been...

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