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.

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.

Since neither MESHdesk nor APdesk are driven by hardware sales but rather to provide creative solutions, this then offered just such an opportunity.

We can now with pride say we also support WiFi Client connections as an alternative to Ethernet based Internet connections.