[MLB-WIRELESS] GHO-South
Brenton D.
ivile01 at yahoo.com.au
Wed Jan 18 23:21:56 EST 2006
Rick grow a dick, different polarization to north and south.
----- Original Message -----
From: "rick" <mibz at optushome.com.au>
To: "Dan Flett" <conhoolio at hotmail.com>
Cc: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 10:50 PM
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] GHO-South
> what is ghomobile
>
> and what is it for and who is it for is it just creating noise that will
> affect the southern link?
>
> Dan Flett wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> As you may all be aware, we currently have three wireless interfaces up
>> at
>> Node GHO. They are GHO-North - pointed at the Northern Suburbs,
>> GHO-Mobile
>> which is an Omnidirectional antenna, and GHO-South, which is pointed at
>> the
>> Southern Region.
>>
>> At the moment, we in the Southern Region are having trouble even getting
>> a
>> sniff of the GHO-South interface. We're not sure if this is a hardware
>> issue - possibly water damage - or if it is simply due to the interface
>> being overwhelmed with too many clients. We need to work out what the
>> problem is so we can re-establish the link to the Southern Region.
>>
>> I will shortly be "locking-down" GHO-South by restricting access. I want
>> to
>> see if it is possible to re-establish the link to the Southern Region by
>> reducing the number of clients on GHO-South. Sorry to anyone who this
>> may
>> disadvantage, but the ugly fact is that 802.11b has it's limitations,
>> especially in long-range, outdoor applications.
>>
>> If it is indeed the case that GHO-South is suffering too many clients, I
>> will look at ways to allow multiple clients - such as RTS/CTS and/or
>> Frottle. This will require that each client meet certain conditions to
>> be
>> allowed access. The general idea is that GHO is supposed to be a
>> backbone
>> node, not a general-access node - people that access GHO should be
>> looking
>> to share their GHO connection in their local area. As new clients are
>> added
>> I will monitor the impact on throughput.
>>
>> Of course, the short-term result may be that kicking people off GHO-South
>> may not re-establish the link to the Southern Region. If this is the
>> case I
>> will still keep the interface locked-down and try to find the source of
>> the
>> problem. If and when we fix the problem I'll look at re-introducing
>> other
>> clients to the GHO-South interface.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Dan
>>
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