Linking In

[Jamie Lovick]

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Jason Hecker wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, I think any organised wireless networking in Canberra
> is nascent and fragmented.  In spite of www.air.net.au there isn't
> much going on, not like in Melbourne and Sydney.  This could be
> rectified.  Perhaps go to the next Canberra Linux Users Group
> meeting at the ANU and see if anything is going on there.  Maybe
> there are a few others who are interested.

Originally, it was air.net.au that got me into the whole wireless thing.

> Before I left Canberra I was looking at setting up an access point
> on the roof a friend's house in Melba.  He lives at the top of the
> hill and has fantastic unfettered views of all of Belconnen and
> North Canberra.  Canberra is ideal for wireless networking so long
> as you get some people perched high enough to run access points
> (like up the back of Duffy, top of Melba, Fraser, Fadden, Banks,
> Richardson, Red Hill, Bruce, Giralang, Macgregor, Upper Narrabundah,
> Griffith (c'mon Andrew), Nungnawall (sp?), Evatt, housing on Lake
> Ginninderra (c'mon Ross), etc.) and a few select buildings in Civic
> and Woden and you should have a good start.  Using a homebrew high
> gain 180 or 360 degree waveguide antenna like on
> www.trevormarshall.com would be ideal.  When I was back there the
> other weekend I noticed just how big all the trees in suburbia have
> grown so users might have to consider antennas masts to get a signal
> through....
> 
> If you were lucky you could try and get a few AP's into Telecom
> Tower (doubtful...)

It may also be worth registering a node on nodedb.com, that way you can
see where you are in relation to others, and may be able to get hooked
up.

Regards

Jamie

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