[MLB-WIRELESS] Melbourne Wireless Router Project

[Ryan Abbenhuys]

Let us know when Netgear start making something that could be useful then.  ;-p


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Stephen Trim 
  To: conhoolio at hotmail.com 
  Cc: melbwireless at wireless.org.au 
  Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 8:57 PM
  Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] Melbourne Wireless Router Project


  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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