[amsat-bb] 2.4GHz broadband router on satellite?

What are the possibilities of building a satellite that uses a Linksys WRT54GL router with a modified DD-wrt or HSMM-Mesh software as a store and forward BBS, to route a received request from one station to another station, or even to connect to a on board networked camera to receive images?

What kind of uplink power would be needed from the home station?

How fast could the speed(s) get theoretically?

How big would the antenna have to be on the craft and for the ground station to even be able to do this adequately?

Would the doppler be too much to even consider this?

Would the space environment be too harsh for something like this?

This is just something I was thinking about this morning and thought I would toss it out.

James W8ISS