After fixing some problems with our initial install during sunday’s downpour, NodeSheffield now has stable connections to both NodeOne and NodeDexter. We have a clean shot at the tower, so I think after some antenna adjustment, this will be our first stable tower link.
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Advice: Do not put up nodes during rain storms. You will be cold, wet, and the likelihood of things working is low. Additionally, do not leave coffee un-attended on windy mornings. It will get blown off the roof and you will be un-caffienated and cranky.
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Node Atoys is live.
At the crack of dawn, Sandi, Rob, Ken, Richard and I headed up to the UPN Tower on Madison and met with the climbers.
We had to do some slight adjustments to our mounting hardware (aaaah power tools.), but were able to get the climbing started on time.
Down on the ground, we got all the non-antenna bits (OLSR, IP Addresses, and power related arrangements) working, and I snapped a few pictures.
Up on the catwalk, the climbing team snapped some nice pictures with Rob’s camera, and we were even able to stitch one together for Panoramas Gigantus.
For the brave of heart and high of gain, point your antennas here, join SWN-NodeAtoys, and start up OLSR.
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After all these years, we finally have our own working node map. You don’t have to email anyone to get on it (like the original), and it’s on our server, so we can implement all the nifty features that we’ve dreamed up over the years. I would really love to see an OLSR plugin that auto-updates the map on it’s status and gives us not only an accurate count, but statistics as well…
Thanks to the Google API (and a bunch of work by Eric Butler), it’s not cutting off any key points of Seattle, and it is very easy on the eyes.
Green nodes are verified nodes, and at the moment, require one of us to make an entry in the database. Adding potential or unverified yellow nodes takes a second of your time, and gives us an idea of what is out there. Please take a moment to add yourself.
And don’t forget to update the Wiki!
Another late night working hard on upgrades. This time it’s the SeattleWireless Wiki. It’s been a long time coming for this one, and the amount of change that’s happened is really too long for my frazzled brain to write down. One thing I would like to point out is that the new version of Moin has Anti-Spam support. Hopefully that will slow them down and speed things up enough for us to get some of the new network changes documented.
Another thing I should mention, is the revision history. Due to the changes in the data storage format over the years, it was impossible for us to move the years of changes over to the new software. I have kept a copy of the old wiki running, and it is now a read only archive for those of you who are interested in the history or want to migrate some change that was lost to the new wiki.
http://archive.seattlewireless.net/
I’m sure that we’ve busted some things in the process, but just drop a comment here or send me a mail or IM and I’ll get right on it… After I get some sleep.
I just couldn’t stand it anymore. I’ve moved from blosxom to wordpress. It will take me a few days to make the site look decent and link to all the non-bloggy content, but it looks like the post import went fairly well…
On a completely unrelated note, we’ve got pretty much all the gear for the tower install, but we need to fashion a real mount for the antenna. Note to antenna manufacturers: Hose clamps are not really mounting kits.
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I’m going to be on WJFF Radio Talking to Christine Ahern about Community Wireless on the Radio Catskills Friday Forum.
The show starts at 1PM EST (10AM PST), but I’ve been told that I will be on the latter half of the show and should expect a call at 10:30 or so. They’ve got a stream in MP3 and RealAudio if you want to listen in.
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SeattleWireless needs your help to put a wireless node on the Capitol Hill Radio Towers. This node will be able to connect Seattle neighborhoods and can possibly be used for longer distance links as well. It is approximately 550 ft above sea level, and has direct line of sight to Bellevue and Kirkland.
Donate now!
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It’s taken a couple of days to decompress from the madness that was MindCamp, but Rob has written up a piece on what happened with the network.
Here’s my bullet points on what not to do next time.
- Don’t trust the WiFi Alliance to test ad-hoc.
- Don’t trust Windows to do the right thing.
- Don’t trust manufacturers will have sane wireless configs. One thinkpad I tried to help with had 3 competing drivers, all with different configurations
- Don’t offer DHCP on the 802.11a link. People will find it and upload podcasts. Funny ones even.
- Find out where common speed test sites are and netnanny them.
- Show up weeks before, not days before. T1s in the space doesn’t mean they’re active.
- Don’t show up for a 24 hour event already on sleep dep.
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We just moved the server to it’s new home. If you notice wonky behavior, drop me a line.
It’s 10 days to Gnomedex, and although it is officially sold out, you can still join in the fun by getting a “Cove” pass
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