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Location: Box Hill
Owner: Lunn [1]
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 [2] GNU [3]/Linux [4]
* One yet-to-be-modified 18dB galaxy [5] antenna
Probable Hardware/Software:
* several ex-galaxy [6] antennas
* AccessPoint [7]s to be mounted in antenna mast for point-to-point
link (hopefully running Linux) connected by cat5 UTP with PoE [8]
* an additional NIC in the router for each link
Obstacles:
* AccessPoint [9]s are too expensive so I may have to look for
another solution
* No one to link to at this stage, although NodeDBD [10] 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.
Links:
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[1] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?Jeremy
[2] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?Debian
[3] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?GNU
[4] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?Linux
[5] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?galaxy
[6] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?galaxy
[7] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?AccessPoint
[8] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?PoE
[9] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?AccessPoint
[10] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?NodeDBD
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