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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi guys if i can help anyone out there at
all<BR>with networking gear as i am a Netgear distributor please let me
know.<BR><BR>Regards<BR><BR>Stephen Trim<BR><BR>Short Cut Computers<BR><BR>>
<BR>> From: "Dan Flett" <<A
href="http://www.mymail.com.au/agent/MobNewMsg?to=conhoolio@hotmail.com">conhoolio@hotmail.com</A>><BR>>
Date: 04/01/2005 15:19:03<BR>> To: <A
href="http://www.mymail.com.au/agent/MobNewMsg?to=zoiqq@yahoo.com.au">zoiqq@yahoo.com.au</A><BR>>
CC: <A
href="http://www.mymail.com.au/agent/MobNewMsg?to=melbwireless@wireless.org.au">melbwireless@wireless.org.au</A><BR>>
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] MelbourneWireless Router Project<BR>> <BR>>
>Where do I signup ?<BR>> <BR>> I'm planning to build a few of these
units myself. The sum of the parts <BR>> will cost, at a very rough
approximation, between $450 and $500, including <BR>> pigtails but not
including other cables, antennas or mast. I've been <BR>> looking at the cost
of setting up a node using various different methods, <BR>> and it turns out
that doing it this way (with a WRT54G and another AP in a <BR>> box up a
mast) is actually cheaper than putting PCMCIA cradles and wireless <BR>>
cards in an old Pentium PC running Linux.<BR>> <BR>> >Or more
seriously, as an idiot, I'm happy to test the<BR>> >unit/kit to make sure
its idiot proof.<BR>> <BR>> Cool. The hardware and software developments
will proceed in a paralell <BR>> manner, but I guess we need some working
hardware first before we can <BR>> properly develop idiot-proof
software!<BR>> <BR>> The first software package I see being developed is a
simple 'master' <BR>> OpenWRT package that downloads and configures other
existing OpenWRT <BR>> packages. This will mostly be command-line driven, but
should be pretty <BR>> simple. Then we can look at modifying or adding to the
OpenWRT <BR>> "interface-wrt" web-interface package. I probably won't be able
to do that <BR>> myself too quickly, so I'll be looking for help to do
this.<BR>> <BR>> >Happy to buy said unit etc....<BR>> <BR>> Cool!
Happy to sell one to you. :) My whole motivation for doing this is <BR>> to
create a basic "building-block" router for the Melbourne Wireless network
<BR>> to make routing on the network easy. I'm interested in helping to build
the <BR>> network, not making money. So in the short-term I'm not expecting
to profit <BR>> in any way from this, and I'll proably never charge a mark-up
on any of the <BR>> hardware I sell to community network people. I may at
some point sell it as <BR>> a kit and charge for assembly though. Assuming
it's popular in the first <BR>> place...<BR>> <BR>> Cheers,<BR>>
<BR>> Dan<BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>