Hi, I'm Marc.
IT consultant based in Cheshire, UK.
Round where I live, there are a lot of old houses with thick walls (3' thick, in some cases), so I'm always looking for a nice solution to getting wifi around the place.
I read about the Almond 3, and thought I'd take a look; the home automation and the mesh networking capabilities make this seem like a really good option.
Trying to work out the best way to get it to play nicely with my existing router, though.
There seem to be a few problems with the Almond as a router;
- Doesn't support port-mapping with port-change
- Doesn't support multi-NAT
So, trying to get it to use my existing router as a WAN, and be able to blend the two networks (by restricting the DHCP IP range on the Almond to a small subset of the available IPs).
I'll let you know how it goes.
If I can get to grips with the way this thing works, I can probably sell a
load of these things.
