In our recent study, we introduced the PlayNCool protocol that increases thethroughput of the wireless networks by enabling a helper node to strengthenthe communication link between two neighboring nodes and using randomlinear network coding. This paper focuses on design and implementationadvantages of the PlayNCool protocol in a real environment of wireless meshnetworks. We provide a detailed protocol to implement PlayNCool thatis independent from the other protocols in the current computer networkstack. PlayNCool performance is evaluated using NS{3 simulations and real-life measurements using Aalborg University's Raspberry Pi test-bed. Ourresults show that selecting the best policy to activate the helper node is akey to guarantee the performance of PlayNCool protocol. We also study theeffect of neighbor nodes in the performance of PlayNCool. Using a helperin presence of active neighbors is useful even if the channel from helper todestination is not better than the channel between sender and destination.PlayNCool increases the gain of end-to-end communication by two-fold ormore while maintaining compatibility to standard wireless ad-hoc routingprotocols.