Search for the ultimate mesh networking platform ends here. Meraki Networks, a company from the MIT, founded by Sanjit Biswas, John Bicket and Hans Robertson has the best solution for creating your own mesh network.

With Meraki repeaters, all you have got to do is power up a few of them and plug a broadband internet connection to one of them. The repeaters will configure itself provide the optimized access to all connected users.

The most beautiful part of their solution is the web based dash board they provide. Every meraki router connects and reports to their hosted backend. The network admin can monitor his network online. The web dashboard also allows you to limit access to the network, charge for the service and also set bandwidth limits.

Their product suite contains an indoor router that costs 49$ and an outdoor router that costs 99$. The web dashboard is free to use.

The beauty of their business idea lies in the fact that every router needs to communicate with their backend. Think about the implications of this -;)