Top 15 SMesh Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

SMesh is a 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. Clients get connected automatically through standard DHCP. No software or drivers need to be installed on the mobile devices. SMesh takes care of providing end-to-end connectivity transparently for the clients.

SMesh operates in regular 802.11 IBSS mode. Its hierarchical architecture separates the mobile clients from the infrastructure. Clients send and receive data through the infrastructure and do not rely on other clients to forward their packets.

1. Netsukuku

Netsukuku Mesh routing protocol designed to handle a massive amount of nodes with very low resource consumption. Thanks to this feature it can be easily used to build a worldwide distributed, anonymous and uncontrolled network, separated from the Internet, without the support of any servers, ISPs or authority controls.......

2. Phantom

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:1. Completely decentralized.2. Maximum resistance against all kinds of DoS attacks.3. Theoretically secure anonymization.4. Theoretically secure end-to-end transport encryption.5. Completely (virtually) isolated from the "normal" Internet.6. Maximum......

3. ninux

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.......

4. Peergos

Peergos PeerGos is Java client for a decentralised, secure file storage, sharing and social network that's surveillance resistant and doesn't expose your friend network.It is based on the network IPFS , with its DNS service which is IPNS.......

5. OnionCat

OnionCat OnionCat creates a transparent IPv6 layer on top of TOR's hidden services. It allows users to anonymously access Internet services. It transmits any kind of IPv6-based data transparently through the TOR network on a location hidden basis. You can think of it as a point-to-multipoint VPN between hidden services. OnionCat......

6. Freenet

Freenet Freenet is free software which lets you anonymously share files, browse and publish "freesites" (web sites accessible only through Freenet) and chat on forums, without fear of censorship. Freenet is decentralised to make it less vulnerable to attack, and if used in "darknet" mode, where users only connect to their......

7. GNUnet

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. Anonymity is provided by making messages originating from a peer indistinguishable from messages that the peer is routing.......

8. WING

WING WING is an open-source Wireless Mesh Networking platform aimed at hobbyists and enthusiasts.Multiple radio interfaces support delivers improved spatial reuse and enhanced system throughput. An interference and traffic aware channel assignment algorithm is used in order to dynamically assign the operating frequencies.No need of configuration, mesh boxes works out of......

9. NChord

NChord NChord is a C# implementation of the Chord distributed hash table. The project provides a library containing the routing, lookup, and maintenance routines specified in the MIT Chord paper, and is quite stable including under heavy load and churn.Source code : http://nchord.sourceforge.net/......

10. WinMX

WinMX WinMX was a FREE file-sharing program that allowed you to connect, download, and share files with MILLIONS of other users through the decentralized WinMX Peer Network. Once WinMX is installed, you had access to one of the largest and most diverse networks of shared media files in the world. Features......

11. Peersm

Peersm Peersm is Anonymous P2P inside browsers, no installation, encrypted and secure. The browsers are talking the Tor protocol extended to P2P and are connecting to the nodes using WebSockets, multi-sources and streaming are supported. The final goal is to build a complete serverless P2P where anonymizer nodes are inside the......

12. GUN

GUN GUN is an open source, realtime, graph database written entirely in JavaScript and built using peer-to-peer algorithms, making it surprisingly fault tolerant and easy to get started with.Like Dropbox for Web Developers or an Open Source Firebase .......

13. Openbazaar

Openbazaar OpenBazaar is an open source project to create a decentralized network for commerce online—using Bitcoin—that has no fees and cannot be censored.......

14. WASTE

WASTE WASTE is a peer-to-peer and friend-to-friend protocol and software application that features instant messaging, chat rooms and file browsing/sharing capabilities. WASTE is a decentralized chat, instant messaging and file sharing program and protocol. It behaves similarly to a virtual private network by connecting to a group of trusted computers, as......

15. OneSwarm

OneSwarm Supports both bittorrent protocol and a friend-to-friend version of the same protocol which in most situations makes you anonymous.......