'Free access' wireless network becomes available

Good idea, we need more wireless networks everywhere in SA.
 
So... an education an research oriented WUG?

Sounds like a good idea I guess. We will have to see how it goes. With all those people gaining access to all of these resources surely booking usage time will become an issue in some cases?
 
Why 5.8GHz? Most public networks are on 2.4GHz and most hardware only supports 2.4GHz.. ?
 
I can only guess for less noise.

There are a LOT of omni antenna's in knysna running on 2.4.

There used to be a free internet wireless network in knysna as well. Uninet, now they charge
 
davemc said:
You will have to ask ICASA.
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Um, how has this contributed to the discussion?
There's no reason why ICASA would force them to use 5Ghz over 2.4Ghz.
Maybe you had some other reason in mind, which I can't seem to figure out. Would you please share it with us?
 
daffy said:
There's no reason why ICASA would force them to use 5Ghz over 2.4Ghz.
Maybe you had some other reason in mind, which I can't seem to figure out. Would you please share it with us?
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We are using 5ghz because 2.4ghz is completely saturated in the George area, with over 700 2.4ghz access points in George alone.
We are creating a brand new network using ubiquiti radios and mikrotik routers exclusively, using the new 802.11n airmax standard (picostation, nanostation, etc - http://ubnt.com/airmax). This gives a potential throughput of 150Mbs.
Another decider was the latency issue. For educational content and voip the lower the latency the better.
 
I am setting up a wan For Knysna Municipality and have put in a proposal to setup a wug backbone between knysna sedgefield and maybe george
I will be looking for Administrators to help with the access controll and security of the wug
 
uncapme said:
I am setting up a wan For Knysna Municipality and have put in a proposal to setup a wug backbone between knysna sedgefield and maybe george
I will be looking for Administrators to help with the access controll and security of the wug
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I actually wanted to setup a wug in knysna at once stage. But now i live in jozi. I'll be in cx from sunday 28th till monday 8th :)
 
While I applaud the idea, the ramifications astound ...

For example consider the gays: they want to be "accepted" yet require to be separate with their "pink accommodation" and "pink wines and wine routes" etc. I can just see the headlines:
"New Fruit Route Wireless announced."
 
Sounds very much like those pre-internet metronets we used to see (ie around US universities and towns). Never really lasts for long without internet access because its too static and content goes out of date after initial enthusiasm dies down. At least try to connect to the ISP peering point. The VoIP should last if enough people who know each other connect
 
So how is this different from the current WUG's?

Must admit I just scanned the article
 
Prof.Merlin said:
I can only guess for less noise.

There are a LOT of omni antenna's in knysna running on 2.4.

There used to be a free internet wireless network in knysna as well. Uninet, now they charge
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Unfortunately UniNet has been complete farce. Before they set up shop in the Garden Route they were promising free internet access and VOIP calls for everyone. Now that deals have been sealed and the spotlight is off them the public are given 20MB a week, which they have to sign-up for. Who exactly has benefited from this venture besides the municipal fat-cats and UniNet? (Now headed by no other than Telkom's ex-CEO, Papi Molotsane)
 
apogeeza said:
While I applaud the idea, the ramifications astound ...

For example consider the gays: they want to be "accepted" yet require to be separate with their "pink accommodation" and "pink wines and wine routes" etc. I can just see the headlines:
"New Fruit Route Wireless announced."
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Flame suit ready?
 
imel said:
We are using 5ghz because 2.4ghz is completely saturated in the George area, with over 700 2.4ghz access points in George alone.
We are creating a brand new network using ubiquiti radios and mikrotik routers exclusively, using the new 802.11n airmax standard (picostation, nanostation, etc - http://ubnt.com/airmax). This gives a potential throughput of 150Mbs.
Another decider was the latency issue. For educational content and voip the lower the latency the better.
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I hope your idea works. People in the garden route are starting to notice how saturated the 2.4Ghz range is and we are seeing quite a few people putting up more 5Ghz equipment.

sii said:
Unfortunately UniNet has been complete farce. Before they set up shop in the Garden Route they were promising free internet access and VOIP calls for everyone. Now that deals have been sealed and the spotlight is off them the public are given 20MB a week, which they have to sign-up for. Who exactly has benefited from this venture besides the municipal fat-cats and UniNet? (Now headed by no other than Telkom's ex-CEO, Papi Molotsane)
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IIRC, the municipality dropped uninet as their provider
 
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