<div dir="ltr"><div>The group is alive, the network is alive, the website is indeed a little un-loved.<br><br></div>As to your last point: pretty much, but it depends a little on where you're going to connect (some links use the vendor-specific TDMA modes, which might influence your choice of which specific inexpensive hardware to choose :).<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 April 2015 at 08:21, James Fysh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james.fysh@gmail.com" target="_blank">james.fysh@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I'm just about to move into a new house in Doncaster East (have already configured the node "KVW" at the new address), and recently my interest in Melbourne Wireless was re-sparked (I was first interested in this group back when I lived up in Olinda many years ago, but quickly realized I couldn't get LOS to the GHO node or anyone else).</div><div><br></div><div>I am wondering;</div><div><ul><li>The <a href="http://melbourne.wireless.org.au/" target="_blank">http://melbourne.wireless.org.au/</a> website looks a bit un-loved - is the group still generally active?</li><li>Are the details of active nodes on that website still considered "current"? I feel like the count of active sites hasn't shifted all that much since I was interested in this stuff 10-12 years ago - is this just a reflection of the site being neglected?</li><li>I grabbed some elevation data from the VicData website, and have built up some tooling to determine LOS using that data - how do others tend to determine LOS?</li><li>It seems like these Ubiquiti wireless devices are all the rage - would I be correct in assuming that setting up these days could be as cheap as buying a NanoBeam M5 (assuming I already have the other relevant hardware to attach to the ethernet port of said device, and perform routing etc)?</li></ul><div>I probably have more questions, but I really just wanted to gauge if it's worth getting excited about Melbourne Wireless, or if it's been superseded by the prevalence of relatively cheap broadband etc?</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>James </div></div></div>
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