GWUG Proposal

[kilos]

Great tool to calculate whether your equipment will have sufficient power
to make a connection based on Tx Power, Link loss, Cable Loss

Register for an account - this tool utilising Google Maps not sure
how it compares to the software app called Radio Mobile

http://www.ligowave.com/linkcalc/

Example of a Wireless Links
http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/6811/enlace5ghz.jpg

[kilos]

Another feature to interconnect WUG is direct Wireless Link ie
George to Mossel Bay, George to Sedgefield, and more difficulty
via High Site in the Mountains George to Oudtshoorn and George to Knysna , Plett Bay
http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Wireless/10291.html

“At the moment JAWUG, PTAWUG [Pretoria] and PCN [Potchefstroom] are connected directly over the airwaves. PEWUG [Port Elizabeth], DWC [Durban] and CTWUG [Cape Town] are connected via ADSL VPNs which are only used for gaming and core services such as DNS.”

Use Local only ADSL accounts for local WUG connects

Many thanks handmade for organising the bank account.
Please PM me your GPS co-ords so that I can work out possible routes to connect you up once the High Site is setup

JAWUG Constitution http://www.jawug.org.za/Constitution

[charlvn]

Great to finally get the show on the road! Haven't heard anything back from the bank again but I'm up in Joburg anyway now for two weeks so will go in to sign as soon as I get back.

[handmade]

Waiting on Nedbank at the mo. All the necessary has been supplied. Once setup the signatories will need to pop-in to sign.

[charlvn]

You can use this to get your latitude and longitude coordinates in the decimal format easily:

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/doc...g-reverse.html

Has reverse geocoding too!

[gyrovague]

GWUG sounds promising.... I have my own tiny little "nanoWUG" among some family and friends here in Heroldsbay, mostly using Ubiquiti equipment, works really well. I used to participate a lot in the ptawug/pwp discussions when I still lived in Transvaal 2 years ago. Would be nice to try to connect to GWUG from here...

[handmade]

Welcome to the Garden Route Forum. There is talk of a 50K radius, which could prove quite a possibility for Herolds Bay, if you aren't living in the actual Bay, behind a massive rock, beneath 10 other houses

[gyrovague]

Thanks Fortunately I'm not at the bottom, but at the top, with a fairly unobstructed view of the mountains.

[kilos]

Thanks Fortunately I'm not at the bottom, but at the top, with a fairly unobstructed view of the mountains.

Welcome to the GR Forum, thats great that you are at the top with clear Line of Sight of the Mountains.
Been testing the new Ubiquiti Airmax kit still in Beta Release and had some excellent bandwidth testing on the workbench will test beyond my premises
Not perfect as my Tx power was too much but it was a quick test and gave some favorable results.

[charlvn]

GWUG sounds promising.... I have my own tiny little "nanoWUG" among some family and friends here in Heroldsbay, mostly using Ubiquiti equipment, works really well. I used to participate a lot in the ptawug/pwp discussions when I still lived in Transvaal 2 years ago. Would be nice to try to connect to GWUG from here...

Where you perhaps the person that popped me a mail a couple of years ago regarding the WUG? Otherwise, I think there might be some more people around your area that would be interested to join.

[gyrovague]

Where you perhaps the person that popped me a mail a couple of years ago regarding the WUG? Otherwise, I think there might be some more people around your area that would be interested to join.

Not sure, I don't remember that (but that doesn't mean I didn't do it ) I think there are at least a handful of people here that would be interested in joining the GWUG.

[kilos]

Was having some fun this afternoon with some quick tests with the new Airmax kit
Downloaded 4.2Gb file from Apache server on Bridged Wireless Network

Check DU Meter
Check latency
Check Download rate of 6.6MB/s
Configuration: Notebook - Nanostation M5 -(===)-wireless Rocket M5 - Linux box
Distance: 10 meters
Firmware: 5.1 Beta

[handmade]

About 9 Minutes to transfer 4.2G is pretty amazing. I recall the first wireless cards I installed for Anglovaal some years ago. These could only do 64Kb/s. We have come a long way

[charlvn]

That AirOS looks very good:

http://wiki.ubnt.com/wiki/index.php/AirOS

[gyrovague]

Yes, I have a few ubiquiti units and I love their webUI. Powerful features but also easy to use, and very responsive (unlike my crappy dlink AP).

[gyrovague]

P.S. I buy mine from www.scoopdistribution.co.za, and get Triangle Couriers to bring them to me from Cape Town.

[kilos]

The little Ubiquiti Picostations are great little outdoor units and with the new Nanostations M5, you can drive power to the little Pico from the Secondary Ethernet port

No need to run 2 power over ethernet units, or you can drive a PoE IP camera.

[kilos]

That AirOS looks very good:

http://wiki.ubnt.com/wiki/index.php/AirOS

AirOS SDK
http://wiki.ubnt.com/wiki/index.php/AirOS-SDK

About 9 Minutes to transfer 4.2G is pretty amazing. I recall the first wireless cards I installed for Anglovaal some years ago. These could only do 64Kb/s. We have come a long way

Did another download with max thruput of 100Mb/s

100%[====================================>] 4,467,916,800 11.1MB/s in 7m 3s

ssh into the wireless device. RF thruput is 300Mb/s but actual on LAN is 100Mb/s better than the 28Mb/s of 802.11a & g 54 Mb/s

XM.v5.1-beta.3207.091120.1938# iwconfig ath0
ath0 IEEE 802.11na ESSID:"t1"
Mode:Managed Frequency:5.18 GHz Access Point: 00:15:6D:E4:CD:20
Bit Rate:300 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=1/3
Retry: off RTS thr: o ff Fragment thr: off
Encryption key:23CE-2B8C-4D93-E046-6203-A2E2-5CF0-6DDA Security mode:restricted
Power Management: off
Link Quality=32/94 Signal level=-64 dBm Noise level=-96 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

[charlvn]

With the reference to "apt-get" I have to assume AirOS is Debian based?

[gyrovague]

Is there an access point online on the mountain now? What is the current status of GWUG? I'd like to do connectivity tests to see if I can join from my location (Heroldsbay), I have LOS to the tower.