Armitage, my parents are renting out a house near durbanville and the person moving in there apparently has plans to start some kind of mesh. Gonna talk to him and c what his story is. Will get back to u.
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well i propose the cape towners who are interested meet up one day say at mugg n bean tygervalley have a cuppa java and discuss this in detail one fine saturday
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Spamtheman,
how is that guide of yours coming along, i can see there are many eager ppl waiting,
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I would not mind taking part in a Cape Town mesh network, but since I am not an avid online gamer, I hope that the cost investment would be beneficial. I live in Sunningdale, Blouberg.
But then, if everybody got onto the mesh network, we can use VOIP to talk to each other and so remove Telkom out of the equation.
yep that would be one of the main reasons for me to do a mesh net. hurt telkom where it really chafes.
I recon everyone who's interested go to http://www.nodedb.com(http://www.nodedb.com/Africa/ZA/Cape_Town), register and get your potential interested node's up there so we can see who sits where so we can set up this network quite nicely with minimal use of directionals.
Proud South african rip offs.
Hey guys calm down, I've still gotta source all the equipment I need to get this set up (saturday mornings are not my strong suite :P). That's why I gave myself until the end of the year to get it done.
Spam, we have all the confidence in the world in you abilities, hehehe.
what type of configuration are you going for, omni direction, or direction, what type of distance, assuming you will be designing for the g (54MB) protocol...
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You Are Committed to Educate Yourself to the Total Risk In Any Activity!
Once Informed & Totally Aware of the Risk,
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Hey Spam, remember seeing yur nick around from megawan days, drop me a line if you need hosting, sounds like an interesting project.
Well I've run into a slight snag in my project, seems *nix doesn't have a lot of support for USB 802.11b adapters let alone 802.11g. I'm keen to use USB adapters for a couple of reasons.
1. They are dirt cheap, found a 802.11g adapter for under R200.
2. USB cables carry a digital signal as opposed to the analogue one carried by antenna cables and pigtails. This meens that there would be no signal degradation due to the cabling used, allowing more marginal connections to be made.
So it looks like the connection will be between windows boxes because of driver support. On a positive note though it looks like I may be able to do the connections at 54mbit for under R400 per side.
wamatt, yeah Megawan was actually where I got the nick Spam, because I had to send out so many notifications about the network being down :). I'll take you up on the offer of hosting once I've documented everything (need to work that digital camera).
cant wait to see your tutorial.
I want to connect to my business adsl account and my shop is 5km away so long range wireless would be ideal
thanks in advance
Robot, providing you have line of sight it should be easy.
what type of aerial and booster are you gonna use for this setup ?
Something homemade? :)
Spam - why not try an Apple box with OS X? Its foundation is FreeBSD. Of course pricing is an issue, but there're more and more G4's coming on the market second-hand.
Looking forward to the developments of mesh networks in Cpt.
Ciao
Simon
*cough* apple *cough* the whole point of the exercise is to do it cheaply. I can buy an ancient box for R600 and install freebsd.
mmm, i actualy deal in asset recovery, so... U want a few dell poweredge p3 servers real cheap mail me at bloemreaper@yahoo.com ;)
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