[MLB-WIRELESS] Fitzroy Tower update

[adamneat]

Out of interest here guys, can anyone (even Michael) see the Richmond Town
Hall clock tower? From my apartment in Richmond, I can see miles (all the
way to the Dandy's and I think a 180' view to brighton/toorak direction and
the other way towards the collingwood direction).

I'm getting married shortly so the budgets are tight but would be definatly
interested in a few months trying for something in Richmond if its suitable
for anyone.

I'm trying to think where Michael's beasty setup would be - I could be in
line of site ?

Adam


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jonathan Oxer [mailto:jon at ivt.com.au]
>Sent: Thursday, 3 January 2002 9:11 AM
>To: melbwireless at melbwireless.dyndns.org
>Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Fitzroy Tower update
>
>
>> >The tower is very high (15m+) - a 15m pigtail from aerial
>down to roof would
>> >be very expensive and very lossy.
>
>> If you stick with an AP,
>> you're going to run into routing problems when the network
>gets larger,
>> and that pesky thing about AP's not being able to speak to
>other AP's.
>> If you run a linux box on the roof, and set everything IBSS
>(adhoc) you
>> can customise the routing to your liking, and upgrade
>drivers/firmware
>> much easier as they come out.
>
>One of the potential AP's mentioned in Michael's PDF is a Linksys WAP11
>(which I'm running on my node at the moment) which does not do *any*
>routing / DHCP at all, it relies entirely on other machines on the
>network to handle it. As far as I'm concerned, that's a bonus: let a
>Linux box do all the hard work, and let the AP handle just the RF
>portion of the job. That way you can do any routing you like
>through it,
>and the WAP11's can now be cranked up to 100mW with a software hack:
>
>http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/31/1340247&mode=thread
>
>For what it's worth, I'd go WAP11 on the tower with Cat5 (for
>convenience of cabling as much as signal loss, I find it a lot
>easier to
>work with UTP than Co-Ax) down to a Linux based router (for maximum
>routing flexibility, not relying on an AP to do it for you).
>
>Just my opinion.
>
>Regards,
>
>Jonathan Oxer
>Internet Vision Technologies
>
>
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