MESH NETWORK CONNECTING 3G WIRELESS ROUTERS

1 . A communication routing arrangement, comprising:

two or more wireless routers coupled to a communication network; and

a user device adapted to couple with the communication network through a communication path including at least one of the two or more wireless routers;

wherein the communication path between the user device and the communication network is one of automatically and manually selected based on available resources of the two or more wireless routers.

2 . The communication routing arrangement of claim 1 , wherein the available resources include available bandwidth and/or signal strength.

3 . The communication routing arrangement of claim 1 , wherein the two or more wireless routers are arranged in a mesh network.

4 . The communication routing arrangement of claim 3 , wherein the two or more wireless routers communicate with each other in a master/slave relationship.

5 . The communication routing arrangement of claim 4 , wherein the master/slave relationship is predetermined.

6 . The communication routing arrangement of claim 5 , wherein the master/slave relationship is hierarchical.

7 . The communication routing arrangement of claim 4 , wherein the master/slave relationship is determined in real time.

8 . The communication routing arrangement of claim 1 , further comprising:

a multiplexer coupled to the two or more wireless routers and positioned in the communication path between the two or more routers and the user device.

9 . The communication routing arrangement of claim 8 , wherein the multiplexer is adapted to select the communication path.

10 . The communication routing arrangement of claim 8 , wherein the multiplexer is adapted to select one or more routers for uploading to the network and one or more routers for downloading to the user device.

11 . The communication routing arrangement of claim 8 , wherein the multiplexer is adapted to form a virtual mesh network of the two or more wireless routers.

12 . The communication routing arrangement of claim 1 , wherein the two or more wireless routers are associated with one or more networks.

13 . The communication routing arrangement of claim 12 , wherein the one or more networks include an Ethernet or an Evolution-Data Optimized (EVDO) network.

14 . The communication routing arrangement of claim 1 , wherein the two or more wireless routers comprise a wide area network (WAN) router and a landline router.

15 . The communication routing arrangement of claim 1 , wherein the two or more wireless routers comprise a wide area network (WAN)/local area network (LAN) router and a landline/LAN router.

16 . The communication routing arrangement of claim 15 , wherein the landline/LAN router is a router selected from a group consisting of:

a cable/802.11 router, and

a fiber optics/802.11 router.

17 . The communication routing arrangement of claim 15 , wherein the WAN/LAN router is a router selected from a group consisting of:

an evolution-data optimized (EVDO)/802.11 router,

a long-term evolution (LTE)/802.11 router,

a DORA/802.11 router,

a universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS)/802.11 router, and

a high speed packet access (HSPA)/802.11 router.

18 . The communication routing arrangement of claim 1 , wherein the two or more wireless routers are automatically selected for coupling to the communication network.

19 . The communication routing arrangement of claim 1 , wherein the two or more wireless routers are manually selected for coupling to the communication network.

20 . The communication routing arrangement of claim 1 , wherein the two or more wireless routers comprise a battery-powered mobile wide area network (WAN)/local area network (LAN) router.

21 . The communication routing arrangement of claim 1 , wherein the selection of the communication path between the user device and the communication network is carried out pursuant to a preferred list of routers.

22 . The communication routing arrangement of claim 21 , wherein at least a portion of the preferred list comprises a predefined list of routers.

23 . The communication routing arrangement of claim 1 , wherein

a first wireless router is configured to operate as an access point; and

a second wireless router is configured to operate as a client.

24 . The communication routing arrangement of claim 1 , wherein

a first wireless router is configured to operate as an access point; and

a second wireless router is configured to alternate between operating as a client and as an access point.

25 . A router multiplexer, comprising:

inputs adapted to couple to two or more wireless routers for communication with a communication network;

an output for coupling to a user device; and

a multiplexing module adapted to automatically select a communication path between the user device and the communication network based on available resources of the two or more wireless routers.

26 . The router multiplexer of claim 25 , wherein the available resources include available bandwidth and/or signal strength.

27 . The router multiplexer of claim 25 , wherein the multiplexing module is adapted to select one or more routers for uploading to the network and one or more routers for downloading to the user device.

28 . The router multiplexer of claim 25 , wherein the multiplexing module is adapted to form a virtual mesh network of the two or more wireless routers

29 . The router multiplexer of claim 25 , wherein the automatic selection of the communication path between the user device and the communication network is carried out pursuant to a preferred list of routers.

30 . The router multiplexer of claim 29 , wherein at least a portion of the preferred list comprises a predefined list of routers.