[MLB-WIRELESS] tonights meet

[Tristan Gulyas]

Just thought I'd add a few things.

THe meeting didn't follow the normal structure.  This time, people came
along, some of us brought notebook PCs, handheld devices and various
wireless gizmos and were doing things with them, such as the Speak Easy
system which Tony had running (awesome!).  Rob brought a Compaq notebook
running RedHat and DHCP (thanks, Rob!) and the network worked pretty well.

People had more of a chance to talk to each other, ask questions, get
answers and meet people.  In my opinion, a refreshing change from the usual
routine of a presentation where people sit down for an hour or two while
they are spoonfed information....  There was a good chance to play wround
with wireless gear, too.  Julian was there with some gear, as was vaskos
with his usual assortment of Enterasys PCMCIA wireless cards and pigtails to
suit.

What do you guys want to see at the meetings?  The suggestion which has been
put forward has been to alternate between styles of meetings.

.t

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Langdon, VK3JED" <vk3jed at optushome.com.au>
To: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 1:04 AM
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] tonights meet


> At 11:31 PM 13/09/2002 +1000, you wrote:
>
> >/me reminds someone who attended to post a summary of what _went down_
> >to the list
>
> Well, it was a more informal meeting this time around.  Once the hall and
> BBQ was setup, everyone set about the task of building a WLAN.  Tristan
> supplied the AP, and we got a network happening.  As for IP addresses, we
> tried using DHCP using a Win XP box, which was partially successful.  In
> the end, a Red Hat 7.3 DHCP server was pressed into service which
performed
> much better.  Most machines got their address of that, while the last few
> stubborn ones were manually given static IPs.
>
> Once the network was up, a Speak Freely conference server was setup and
> everyone proceeded to setup Speak Freely and join the party.  It was king
> of like the heyday of CB. :)  A number of people decided to try and see
how
> far they could get.  One got to the Geebung pub, another across the far
> side of the footy oval and a couple headed east, with ranges as much as
> 200m using various antennas.
>
> Later in the evening, we switched from the server based conference to IP
> multicasting, which got a little confusing for some, as some IP stacks
> enforce looping back of one's own audio (e.g. Win 9x).
>
> All in all, a night of fun tinkering. :)
>
> 73 de Tony, VK3JED
> http://vkradio.com
>



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