Https://libremesh.org/ is interesting, but it only really works if the devices is close enough to each other and either way, you will need a gateway to the rest of the internet. Source: over 2 years ago

Few routers are supported and widespread ad-hoc mesh networking remains mostly a pipe dream at this point. You can find a few attempts to do what you're asking for such as commotion and libremesh but they are just attempts and require significant planning put into the layout and configuration of the network which largely defeats your reason for wanting mesh networking. Like I said, there is little router support... Source: over 2 years ago

Today I head about mesh networks (https://libremesh.org/ or https://librerouter.org/) in a comment on r/ipfs. Source: over 3 years ago

IPFS is a solution on the software side for hardware check out https://libremesh.org/ or https://librerouter.org/. Source: over 3 years ago

After a lot of experimenting, my team and I found Pragli and we were surprised. Simple, flexible and spontaneous. Starting a conversation became as light as looking at the next workstation and saying "hey how are things going there?". Source: over 3 years ago