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Node GSG is now up, though very short-range. It lives in West
Melbourne, between the railway and Spencer street.
The router is a laptop running Debian GNU/Linux "unstable", kernel
2.4.21 with a 3Com 589 (with a dodgy dongle) and an Avaya Silver
(orinoco) card. No antennas on the roof (none for Wifi anyway) as of
yet.
2003/07/01
My first WarDriving [1] expedition with a windows laptop and
NetStumbler [2] resulted in 150 hits (excluding NodeGSG [3]). You can
grab the log from
ftp://ftp.cafuego.net/pub/users/cafuego/stuff/Wardrive%20Melbourne%2020030701.ns1.gz
and load that into NetStumbler [4], if you want to have a look at what
I picked up.
2003/07/02
I borrowed a ladder from my neighbour and have been on the roof. Here
are the shots:
Small: http://www.cafuego.net/wifi/gsg_roofshot_sm.jpg (3047x400 px,
285Kb)
Large: http://www.cafuego.net/wifi/gsg_roofshot_lq.jpg (9277x1218 px,
663Kb)
2003/12/07
Am now the happy owner of a Linksys BEFW11S4 version 4 AP. I've
updated some info in LocFinder [5], but am still hunting for tx power
and antenna gain numbers.
2004/08/07
Well, it's been a while since I updated this, so I'd better. The
BEFW11S4v4 turned out to be C R A P and I returned it 3 days after I
got it - It would crash for unknown reasons at least twice a day and
require a hard reset to come back up. Its replacement (which hasn't
ever crashed) is a D-Link 604+ DSL Modem with built-in AP.
I've also purloined a Minitar AP and installed that at the in-laws.
It's NodeHWP [6].
Links:
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[1] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?WarDriving
[2] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?NetStumbler
[3] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?NodeGSG
[4] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?NetStumbler
[5] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?LocFinder
[6] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?NodeHWP
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