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DESCRIPTION:- A D-link AP 2000+ Access point.
LOCATION:- On the south side of the Hurstbridge Rd in Diamond Creek
facing north.
OBJECTIVE:- I hope to set up the AP using Cantenna very shortly,
people in Diamond Creek will have to point your antenna towards the
hill behind Ritchies IGA up near the top and you should be OK.
I will be running a DHCP server with possible broadband access to the
internet available.
THIS WEEKEND:- I have found this link to assist in getting power over
ethernet, which i will build up and test prior to putting my AP up
with my cantenna. http://www.nycwireless.net/poe/
I have found that Dick Smith Electronics has the DC plug and socket,
and the Middy's in Preston is open on Saturday mornings to by the
network sockets.
CHECKING HOW FAR MY SIGNAL GOES:- In my note book I have a Dlink DWL
650+ PCMCIA WiFi [1] NIC, I loaded netstumbler on it from
/www.netstumber.com/ and i found that it did not work.
A lot of searching around the net and various forums pointed me to
download different types of tools and various utilities, all to no
avail.
A person in one forum stated that he had been able to get a DWL 650+
working, but not with the drivers that came on the CD with the NIC.
I went to Dlink's site on the net at www.dlink.com.au and downloaded
the latest drivers.
I followed the removal instruction in the PDF in the download and
then followed the install instruction and netstumbler now works and
displays a wonderful graph.
I will use this tool to check my signal strength, when i place my
cantenna on the roof.
Links:
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[1] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?WiFi
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