A year ago I set out to test various existing mesh routing protocols on different topologies. Especially emulating huge networks are tempting, since real hardware for this is too expensive (for me). I present the story, the projects [1] and my findings while testing emulated mesh networks of up to 2000 nodes. Protocol implementations tested: * Babel * batman-adv * BMX6 * BMX7 * CJDNS * OLSRd * OLSR2 * OSPF