__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.