OK, My AREDN node officially hung outdoors - although not very high - 20' or so?
Nanostation M2, at 30.43751389 -97.73818611, pointed due north (mostly on purpose)
I don't see any other stations, but the nearest I see is in Harker Heighs (~66mi, and probably right behind a 200' hill).
It's just connected to my laptop for now, but it does have MeshChat loaded up on it.
I have two wrt54g's that are currently configured for HSSSN - should I re-configure one to be a gateway and hook it onto the internet? Or is is more reccomended to acquire a toughswitch and configure it thusly? I'm most likely to just leave this one here, thoug it is on my toughbook that should be in the car :?
73 de KB5ZVP
Nanostation M2, at 30.43751389 -97.73818611, pointed due north (mostly on purpose)
I don't see any other stations, but the nearest I see is in Harker Heighs (~66mi, and probably right behind a 200' hill).
It's just connected to my laptop for now, but it does have MeshChat loaded up on it.
I have two wrt54g's that are currently configured for HSSSN - should I re-configure one to be a gateway and hook it onto the internet? Or is is more reccomended to acquire a toughswitch and configure it thusly? I'm most likely to just leave this one here, thoug it is on my toughbook that should be in the car :?
73 de KB5ZVP
You can load DD-WRT (or Linksys) firmware back on the WRT and use it as an access point for your mesh (cell phone, pc, etc).
I would recommend a Netgear GS105E, Netgear GS108E, or, UBNT Toughswitch to configure for your VLAN's (WAN, DtDLink).
Link to GS105E on Amazon.com ($26.95 after $10 rebate)
-Randy
Digging around my junk box, I found a Linksys/Cisco RVS4000 Network Router I could set up all the VLANs in, so now I'm officially live, though it's got a bunch of other stuff (firewalls and junk). Also have my Rasperry Pi online with PiChat and VideoChat.
It's got an instance of Google PeopleFinder on it as well, but I've not started the service as of yet. I'll work on getting that service to start at Pi Boot and then I'll feel comfortable advertising the service.
There's also a Winlink NPO on a laptop connected, though it's just a post office at this point as I've not turned on the gateway because I've got to hang another antenna before I really go live with the gateway.
I'd love to learn how this tunneling works too.
73 de KB5ZVP
Scott
You may want to double check your frequency and bandwidth settings. ch -2 and 20Mhz is out of band.
My 2 nodes are currently down while I rework some items on the tower. After I get all that fixed, just let me know if you would like to tunnel in.
73 de KB5ZVP
Scott
KX5DX-OMNI
CH -2 @ 10MHz
It's the first prototype, so no laughing (I soldered the connector without a test fit first - shame on me), but the picture below is my Rasperry Pi serving Mesh Chat and Video Chat, and PeopleFinder, though the service is spotty, so I don't have the startup script running right just yet, and I'm working on understanding Nginx with OwnCloud to install that. I'm most proud of my custom POE Injector that also powers the Pi.
Scott
Changing subjects on you, you didn't by any chance run a pin for a GPIO to trigger the remote reset on that board did you? I still might need to make a multi injector that supports 5+ devices at once, but if a board supports resetting one board it works as a good starting point for me to do some of my one-off device flashing.
Feel free to contact me kb5zvp(at)gmail.com
Well, as live marches on I've finally found some time to get back into this, and have a tunnel server now set up and working. I'm linked to my brother in Dalls, but (sigh) it remains lonely here in Austin.
Scott
kb5zvp
Do you have a timeframe for your Harker Heights install?
BTW, Im connected via tunnel to W6BB in California, so once we connect over RF you should see plenty of content being advertised over the mesh.