Today, all of the commercial cloud based controllers we know about require that the hardware be connected to an Ethernet network running a DHCP server.

MESHdesk and APdesk was also like that until recently.

So we added support for 3G/4G dongles and were very proud if it until we hit the real world.

While we were going to deploy a mesh at one of our clients using our newly added support for 3G/4G dongles, they asked why can't we make use of their existing LTE router with WiFi and cut on the hardware costs. Then there's no need of an extra dongle and the mesh can have one less node which they have to pay for.

Since neither MESHdesk nor APdesk are driven by hardware sales but rather to provide creative solutions, we went back home and started working on a solution.

We can now with pride say we also support WiFi Client connections as an alternative to Ethernet and 3G/4G dongle based Internet connections.