[MLB-WIRELESS] GHO-South

[Brenton D.]

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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