Hey ppl,
Apologies that you have been having "concerns"... I cannot speak for the rest of the gang, but I have had one heck of a month... am too busy at work to even do anything wug related to be honest....
The nice thing about irc is that it is live - and there are many people there - willing to assist where they can....
We have a new website going live shortly, which will make things a heck of a lot easier as far as seeing the possible nodes around you to which you can connect. Also, it will be much easier to contact people who you may be interested in chatting to about getting together, funding a site, and connecting to the rest of the network.
I used to monitor the forum daily, but due to my new workload, I'm getting up at 04:00, hitting the office at 05:00 and living on coffee and adrenalin until the evenings....
Try IRC again, try the forum, keep posting here (but in the wifi/wisp section pls) and we will get to you, sooner or later!
Jawug was started by two people, linking together... and that expanded slowly to three or four people... In other areas, people were linking together and eventually, all of these little networks were connected together and thats how things came about...
I was one of the first people in the West Rand, financed the equipment for our west-to-east link, and the rest is history! So I think what I am trying to say is, try link up with people in your area first (if at all possible) and the more this happens, the bigger your little area will become.... We WILL link to you sooner or later... It's just a matter of getting to you!
We have always battled to get decent coverage into Fourways / Rivonia / Sandton, but we are looking at a couple of sites currently, and we are always ready to do what is necessary to speak to people, and try and utilise decent sites...
marine1 is correct though - JHB is very different from PTA, and it is a lot more difficult to get LOS to specific sites... Especially in the West Rand... I could tear my hair out at some of the hassles I have to deal with in the West...
Some of the guys waited years (I am not exaggerating) to get connected, but they never gave up... whereas someone who may have heard about this on a forum somewhere, happened to have suitable kit (perhaps from a bad wisp experience
) and came into IRC, and was connected within three minutes!!
I better stop my rambling now, and get some work on the go....
Keep at it, keep bugging us, keep trying, make it happen in your own little areas, link to a friend, start things off, but keep bugging us as well, so we can put you in contact with people nearby....
From my side, I promise to try and spend more time checking forum posts!
