<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Ryan is correct in that GHO will be locked down after the testing phase. It's primary purpose is to interconnect/backbone existing AP's and to hopefully 'stimulate' the growth of more interconnected local AP's.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">It is possible in the future that we may have a second AP and/or site up there that can act as a client access node, but that will depend on the success of this AP and a few other factors.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">This site is on a trial basis as there was no pre-existing relationship with the property owner (just some guy whose door we knocked on!). We hope that over the comming months that a relationship with Melbourne Wireless will grow and we can negotiate to make it a long term site.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Many of you may have heard of some rather impressive distances achievied from this AP (some even over 40km). But as we all know, seeing an AP in netstumbler/kismet and actually associating and sustaining reasonable transfer rates are 2 different things. Hopefully over the next few weeks we can get a clear picture of what distances are realistically attainable. </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">There is a FTP server on 192.168.0.1 If you are able to associate, please email me with details of your location (locfinder id will do), equipment used, connection quality aswell as an indication of both upload and download performance on the ftp. Please don't use it to transfer large files (ie > 2MB) during this testing phase so we can get reasonably accurate remote test results</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Also, forgot to mention... Thanks to Steve Tossell for his assistance in remote testing during the initial deployment (and re-deployments) of the AP's.</font>
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<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif"><b>"Ryan Abbenhuys" <sneeze@igreen.net></b></font>
<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Sent by: owner-melbwireless@wireless.org.au</font>
<p><font size=1 face="sans-serif">14/05/2003 07:23 PM</font>
<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Please respond to "Ryan Abbenhuys"</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Don't forget people, GHO won't be there forever and is by no means an<br>
alternative for local AP's.<br>
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Eventually I believe the plan is to lock it down so that it can be used as a<br>
backbone link to connect various areas around melbourne that would otherwise<br>
not be able to connect.<br>
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You can imagine what would happen if it were just left as an open<br>
AP.....bandwidth gets less and less as more people connect, next thing you<br>
know you're better off on dialup!<br>
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----- Original Message ----- <br>
From: "Devon Starbuck" <dstarbuck@optushome.com.au><br>
To: "'Melbourne Wireless'" <melbwireless@wireless.org.au><br>
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 7:10 PM<br>
Subject: RE: [MLB-WIRELESS] Node GHO - ROCKS!<br>
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> Tonight at 7pm I (node DBF) went onto my balcony. I am 16.75km's from<br>
> node GHO and it was raining. I turned on my ipaq5450, with built in<br>
> 802.11b, and discovered GHO. Unfortunately I was unable to connect, I<br>
> was getting wet and so was the ipaq. I only tried once.<br>
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> I am keen to test further. Node BFI, myself and one other are putting<br>
> together a link atm. BFI or myself will prolly run an AP (depends on my<br>
> better halfs perception of the antenna)and then we will look at<br>
> connecting to other node networks. Yet to sort out any details.<br>
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> Congratulations must go to the participants in node GHO.<br>
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> Well done<br>
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> Devon<br>
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