Diff: NodeDFC

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+__Location:__ Box Hill %%% 

+__Owner:__ [Jeremy Lunn] %%% 

+__Status:__ waiting/gathering %%% 

+ 

+__Line of Sight__: 

+* North - no further than the railway line (800m) 

+* West - no further than about Elgar Rd (800m) 

+* South - no further than about Kingswood College (600m) 

+* South-East - a little further than the East Burwood Kmart (>5km) 

+* East - The dandenongs on the horizon (20km) but I'm not sure about what I can actually see in front of them 

+ 

+__Current Hardware/Software:__ 

+* PC Router 

+** 75Mhz Pentium 

+** 32Meg of RAM 

+** 100BaseTx NIC to LAN with 4 clients 

+** 10BaseT NIC to optus@home 

+** 11Mbps 802.11b wireless NIC for wireless clients 

+** [Debian] [GNU]/[Linux] 

+* One yet-to-be-modified 18dB [galaxy] antenna 

+ 

+__Probable Hardware/Software:__ 

+* several ex-[galaxy] antennas 

+* [AccessPoint]s to be mounted in antenna mast for point-to-point link (hopefully running Linux) connected by cat5 UTP with [PoE] 

+* an additional NIC in the router for each link 

+ 

+__Obstacles:__ 

+ 

+* [AccessPoint]s are too expensive so I may have to look for another solution 

+* No one to link to at this stage, although [NodeDBD] has expressed interest 

+ 

+__Progress:__ 

+ 

+* 24/04/02 - On Friday I got hold of my first galaxy antenna.  Tonight I went up on the roof and was able to see Kmart in East Burwood.  Hopefully I'll be able to get a link in this direction and from there a link towards the city.