[MLB-WIRELESS] Melbourne Wireless Router Project

[Stephen Trim]

Hi guys if i can help anyone out there at all
with networking gear as i am a Netgear distributor please let me know.

Regards

Stephen Trim

Short Cut Computers

> 
> From: "Dan Flett" <conhoolio at hotmail.com>
> Date: 04/01/2005 15:19:03
> To: zoiqq at yahoo.com.au
> CC: melbwireless at wireless.org.au
> Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] MelbourneWireless Router Project
> 
> >Where do I signup ?
> 
> I'm planning to build a few of these units myself. The sum of the parts 
> will cost, at a very rough approximation, between $450 and $500, including 
> pigtails but not including other cables, antennas or mast. I've been 
> looking at the cost of setting up a node using various different methods, 
> and it turns out that doing it this way (with a WRT54G and another AP in a 
> box up a mast) is actually cheaper than putting PCMCIA cradles and wireless 
> cards in an old Pentium PC running Linux.
> 
> >Or more seriously, as an idiot, I'm happy to test the
> >unit/kit to make sure its idiot proof.
> 
> Cool. The hardware and software developments will proceed in a paralell 
> manner, but I guess we need some working hardware first before we can 
> properly develop idiot-proof software!
> 
> The first software package I see being developed is a simple 'master' 
> OpenWRT package that downloads and configures other existing OpenWRT 
> packages. This will mostly be command-line driven, but should be pretty 
> simple. Then we can look at modifying or adding to the OpenWRT 
> "interface-wrt" web-interface package. I probably won't be able to do that 
> myself too quickly, so I'll be looking for help to do this.
> 
> >Happy to buy said unit etc....
> 
> Cool! Happy to sell one to you. :) My whole motivation for doing this is 
> to create a basic "building-block" router for the Melbourne Wireless network 
> to make routing on the network easy. I'm interested in helping to build the 
> network, not making money. So in the short-term I'm not expecting to profit 
> in any way from this, and I'll proably never charge a mark-up on any of the 
> hardware I sell to community network people. I may at some point sell it as 
> a kit and charge for assembly though. Assuming it's popular in the first 
> place...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dan
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