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Our Purpose
To help develop further connections and work on inter region linking
if possible.
Latest Projects
Establish new links in the Outer Eastern region Further develop the
click maps. See Mapping Links [2] For an 350x350 clickmap of NodeGUR
[3] Click Here [4] For an 800x800 clickmap of NodeGUR [5] Click Here
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Latest News
16/6/07
Well lots has been happening.
The Node's website got moved from the ;inux box to a r100 AP running
openwrt.
This has eliminated the hard disk fail factor and reduced the power
consumption enormously, not to mention save on space!
Openwrt boots of a 1Gb USB Key taking the flash from 16meg to 1Gb
I have created an upcheck scrip to copy images around when other
nodes are online
##### upcheck script start #######
cp /www/up.jpg /tmp/www/up.jpg
cp /www/down.jpg /tmp/www/down.jpg
i=1
while [ $i -le 10 ]
do
ping -c 1 10.10.128.49 |grep -q from && cp /tmp/www/up.jpg
/tmp/www/hkf.jpg cp /tmp/www/down.jpg /tmp/www/hkf.jpg
sleep 60
done
########## end of upcheck ######
* Then create a file in /etc/init.d/ with
vim /etc/init.d/S90upcheck
#put in
ash /upcheck &
* exit and then
chmod 777 /etc/init.d/S90upcheck
28/6/05
The Omni has been picked up in frankston with a reasonable signal,
scan around if you haven't already , you may be surprised at what you
pickup.
From my checking of los, I seem to have about a 30deg window from
south to south south west.
Well ILE is on the move they are a great router and are very stable
if you run openwrt. I tried running sveasoft for quite a while,
testing all different versions, but gave up in the end after finding a
seemingly endless stream of bugs which made it unuseable in some way.
The web interface is nice, but if your doing anything more than a
single short range link, use openwrt. I'm currently running openwrt on
4 wrt54gs ap's of my own. The big tip with openwrt with client mode is
turn off the bridging and run the wlan interface using the wifi nvram
varibles. Specifically set the wifi_ifname=eth1 otherwise things go a
bit crazy. Relating to the hardware with these boxes, you should be
aware of the following limitations we have found through testing.
These units seem to have an average receive sensitivity and thus if
a test has reveiled a signal lower than -75db and/or your trying to
link more than 10klm, I suggest you use the senao 2611-CB3 11mbs unit
instead. The main factor that gives the distance limitation is timing
in the drivers. The result is they start getting unstable & dropping
packets. If you still need a router when using even two 2611's, just
disable the wlan in the wrt54g and use it as a router with openwrt and
your desired protocol.
These units are ideally suited for high density short range links
upto 1klm with -70db or better. We've been acheiving upto 1.6 Mbyte a
sec from the gur omni which has a wrt54g on openwrt in ap They're
running but are a bit flakey or slow at the moment.)
A big welcome to all the new nodes that have joined the network in
the last few months. Your contribution in content and participation
are what the group needs.
18/8/04
The omni is now setup & running. Look out for ssid
'gur.melbournewireless.org.au' on channel 8 at the moment. Inital
tests are showing strong coverage on the eastern side of stud rd.
Especially in the northern direction with -54Dbm received on a 16Db
Vagi at 1klm north.
Send me an email if you pick it up.
17/8/04
An uplink to AAF has been established and ospf is up (
Stay tuned for future developments.
21/7/04
Well the time is finaly here, the timing has been moved forward and
thus the Mast will be coming down on the 25/7/04 (wind permitting).
I'll need the helpers around lunch time this saturday.
Last chance for those who want to check out the node before removal.
(contact me by email for details)
4/6/04
The mast at the current location (moorabbin) is set to come down on
the
14/8/04
helpers needed to avert the express method of removal, which is
entertaining, as a few of us have experienced but not the desired
method. :o If your interested to check out the node on the day,
contact me by email.
10/5/04
Move Delayed The move has now been delayed until the end of august
but is still going ahead.
5/2/04
Big News - We're moving ! The Node will be running until the last
minute , but somewhere around the end of May 04 we're moving to
rowville & thus the node will come down. See node #536 on NodeDB [10]
for LOS checks.
27/1/04
Update Various things are progressing along. Welcome Sui NodeHJA
[11] to RGSouthern, we connected him this weekend just gone with a
6mtr mast on his roof with a 17ish db grid.
There is now a quake3 Arena demo server online at 10.10.147.10 or
for those not on the wireless network YET, 150.101.150.103 port 27960.
You can freely download this quake version from
http://datafast.games.tucows.com/adnload/210734_112800.html
I plan to bring more servers online as time goes on. Feel free to
email me suggestions or preferences.
Voice over ip now working. - Yes, FREE phone calls over the wireless
network does work ! I'm using a GrandStream [12] BudgeTone [13]-100
available from John NodeFOB [14] and with the ip routing set correctly
on another phone, it's possible to call ip to ip address just by
dialing the ip address. (Press speaker , menu , dial ip address - eg
010.010.131.005 for me, then press send. We have tested the phone over
a dicey link and even at 1mbs with low packet loss (
Links:
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[1] http://melbournewireless.org.au/nodes/view?id=GUR
[2] http://www.melbourne.wireless.org.au/wiki/?MappingLinks
[3] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?NodeGUR
[4]
http://www.melbournewireless.org.au/maps/clickmaps/350x350clickmap.php?id=gur&zoom=1
[5] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?NodeGUR
[6]
http://www.melbournewireless.org.au/maps/clickmaps/800x800clickmap.php?id=gur&zoom=-2
[7] http://www.nodedb.com
[8] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?NodeAAF
[9] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?BigJohn
[10] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?NodeDB
[11] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?NodeHJA
[12] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?GrandStream
[13] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?BudgeTone
[14] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?NodeFOB
[15] http://www.melbourne.wireless.org.au/wiki/?BudgeTone-100
[16] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?NodeGJD
[17] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?NodeGDW
[18] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?NodeGHO
[19] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?NodeGES
[20] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?NodeGUR
[21] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?NodeGDW
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