From: gARetH baBB (hick.w.hb{at}gink.org)
Date: 09/07/05 10:46
On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, simon wrote:
> This is great. I'd be interested in the technical document. Most of my
I'm still recovering from yesterday, it was a busy day doing the radio
stuff, and it continues - though fortunately at a more sedate pace - all
weekend, so things like work on that have been delayed.
> local exchange... seems odd. I'm running a wireless router in my home
> and would be interested to learn whether I can extend this for use down
> the street. As it is technically possible, I'd like to know how I would
Ah, you've got a full router - you really need a bog standard seperate AP
(or suitable card to go in the computer) as the "Lilyhopping" box will be
the thing doing all the routing etc.
It's still possible - you can usually just ignore most of the WAN based
side of the router and essentially treat it as an AP, unless your router
is also your DSL modem. What device have you exactly got ?
> go about building a fairly robust access node, whether it would cost me
> a great deal to stick an Ariel up
How far away are these other buildings ? You can get away with ad-hoc
installations, but you can't rely on that being the case and if you need
a proper antenna you need one.
You can also add repeaters if neccessary for extending the coverage.
Solwise do a "budget" external 8db omni for about 28, you will also need
various bits of cable etc on top of that if you need a full installation.
> and what shared access would mean to my bandwidth.
Though Lilyhopping per se isn't about Internet access, what the pad-owners
want to do with their node is up to them - they can get people to
authenticate and give them other "privileged" services like Internet
access - certainly the prime reason for the Broughton Street lot was to
share Internet but hopefully we can in the future lead them into also
being interested in what the Lilyhopping network itself might do.
As to how it effects your bandwidth, that entirely depends on what the
other users are doing. It's not that difficult adding mechanisms to limit
the total bandwidth others can use, so effectively reserving a minimum for
yourself.
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