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OWNER: jonathan [2]
LOCATION: Park Street, Pascoe Vale
STATUS: Gathering Info
SSID: Not yet...
CONNECTING...
You can't, just yet!
NODE LOG
19/05/2005 - Registered on Melbourne Wireless
18/06/2005 - Got up on the roof and took some LOS photographs
09/02/2007 - Updated
EQUIPMENT
I have a several of machines. I run Ubuntu Linux (Dapper Duck 6.06,
x86_64) on my main machine (which is out of action at the moment), and
have a second older 32 bit machine with Dapper also on it.
I have Ralink RT2500 based wifi cards in both machines, and have
spent some time playing about a bit with them.
I also have an old Higrade laptop, which is currently running WinXP
[3]. It has an Asus USB dongle on it.
Recently, I bought a Linksys WRT54GL to play with. I was previously
routing everything through my x86_64 box. At the moment, it still has
the default Linksys firmware, but in the next week or so, I'll try
swapping it out for OpenWRT [4].
Part of me regrets buying the WRT, as I'd forgotten that there was
the Asus WL500GP available, and I was thinking that the Asus box would
make a good webserver/file server etc. Perhaps, I might also buy one
of them, once I get an external antenna up. The WRT can possibly turn
into my melbourne wireless router.
PLANS
I am looking to create a node for the fun of it. I'll need some help,
I guess, in testing it when I get it operational. First things first
though, some research...
As I'm in a little bit of a hollow, I'll probably need to put up a
reasonably high mast. I've been in touch with Adrian (Node HKP) which
is the closest node I'd have a chance of connecting with. This is
really a chicken and the egg scenario though.
I have gotten up on the roof and taken some LOS photographs. These
photographs were taken about 1.2m above the ridge-cap of the roof,
which is how far the tripod extended.
From these I have created a somewhat dodgy panorama [5]
More particularly, here is a full resolution image [6] (3.6MB)
looking toward node HKP [7]
And, here is a full resolution image [8] (3.6MB) looking toward node
IKG [9]
PROBLEMS
I'm in a bit of a hollow.
Links:
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[1] http://melbournewireless.org.au/nodes/view?id=IWB
[2] http://melbournewireless.org.au/users/?jonathan
[3] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?WinXP
[4] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?OpenWRT
[5]
http://members.optusnet.com.au/jonathan_rabbitt/melbournewireless/panorama.jpg
[6]
http://members.optusnet.com.au/jonathan_rabbitt/melbournewireless/img_4141.jpg
[7] http://www.melbournewireless.org.au/maps/view?id=hkp
[8]
http://members.optusnet.com.au/jonathan_rabbitt/melbournewireless/img_4146.jpg
[9] http://www.melbournewireless.org.au/maps/view?id=hkp
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