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The article fails to make a good distinction for the different challenges of adhoc, infrastructure and privacy enhancing or censorship circumventing mesh networks.

Several others and I run a small (50 nodes) mesh network in my area, and it works fine for:

- enhancing WiFi access for all contributing nodes to an area which has limited or no coverage.

- providing fallback uplink connectivity for contributing nodes.

Infrastructure mesh networks are easy split into interconnected groups to avoid performance problems, and are still mesh networks, were a metropolitan area is covered by one ore more meshes to add redundancy and avoid scaling problems.

For enhanced privacy see http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2013/EECS-2013-12...