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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Let us know when Netgear start making something
that could be useful then. ;-p</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=strim@ozemail.com.au href="mailto:strim@ozemail.com.au">Stephen
Trim</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=conhoolio@hotmail.com
href="mailto:conhoolio@hotmail.com">conhoolio@hotmail.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=melbwireless@wireless.org.au
href="mailto:melbwireless@wireless.org.au">melbwireless@wireless.org.au</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, January 05, 2005 8:57
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [MLB-WIRELESS] Melbourne
Wireless Router Project</DIV>
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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="mailto:conhoolio@hotmail.com">conhoolio@hotmail.com</A>><BR>>
Date: 04/01/2005 15:19:03<BR>> To: <A
href="mailto:zoiqq@yahoo.com.au">zoiqq@yahoo.com.au</A><BR>> CC: <A
href="mailto: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></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>