Mesh Networking

[regardtv]

Just did a quick visit at a client ...

Drove along Jan Smuts Avenue, onto Empire to Auckland park ...

16 Access points
3 completely open
1 public internet access

This was off a low power IPAQ ... time to do a decent wardrive ;-) ...

We could almost get a mesh going just by looking for overlapping company APs ;-) (well, not quite)

 

[hArTh]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Kai</i>
<br />starting to sound VERY interesting indeed!

i'm getting a wireless network, whether that's enough to get me on JaWug, it another question. Getting 802.11g stuff too... *droool*

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I'm getting a 802.11g AP soon too, so I will be searching for Capetonians to connect too. My main interest is sharing ADSL and MW service over a wifi network. ADSL + MW (when its sorted) together would be an ideal combination but too expensive for most to have induvidually.

Prior to ADSL capping, latency sensitive stuff can go over ADSL and downloads via MW. After ADSL cap, local ADSL bw can be raped while using MW for int access.

Of course we have the moutain so I dont have to hurry while still looking cool to my fellow forumites [}]

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[Brolloks]

hArTh
I assume you'll to be hanging out at the top of the mountain. Good vantage point

 

[hArTh]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Brolloks</i>
<br />hArTh
I assume you'll to be hanging out at the top of the mountain. Good vantage point
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I useually only go up when I feel the need to partake in the devine leaf but come to think of it one or two MW / Iburst towers on table mountain (cableway station) would be more than a good idea [}][}][}]

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[malec]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Im right at the varsity. In hatfield very close to the square/mall in burnett street. It all depends on the range. If we can get above 800 or so metres we should be cool
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I have a feeling 800m is a bit easier said than done

 

[koosbeer]

Sounds good to me to... I'm actually in a area where I don't think there is any one who would like to do something like that. I'm in Villeria in Pretoria! To far from greedy... Anybody in that area???

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[regardtv]

Nope ... 2 standard senao pci cards with 12dbi yaggis does the job "pretty" ;-)

 

[groenie]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by koosbeer</i>
<br />Sounds good to me to... I'm actually in a area where I don't think there is any one who would like to do something like that. I'm in Villeria in Pretoria! To far from greedy... Anybody in that area???
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I'm up on the hill above Silverton. Look for the Groenie node at http://www.nodedb.com/africa/za/pretoria/?

Maybe we can get someone in between us, and link up to the guys in Hatfield.

Groenie

 

[Brolloks]

hArTh
Try get that past the environmental people.

 

[daffy]

800m is nothing.
You can easily get 2+kms from a pair of 12dBi Yagi's if you have line of sight.

Miro has them for abour R390 each.
You'll need some LMR-400 cable to connect the Yagi to where the Access Point/Wireless Card is, which is R26p/metre. (A set of connectors is about R200.
And then you'll need a short piece of cable to connect the LMR-400 to the Access Point, which is around R120 (depending on connectors).

Its not dirt cheap, but just think, you'll never have to pay to communicate between the two points again.

 

[hArTh]

My new node []

http://www.nodedb.com/africa/za/cape_town/view.php?nodeid=19&lang=en



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