WiFi in Townsville, North Queensland

[John Croft]

> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 14:02:05 +1000
> From: Paul L Daniels <pldaniels at pldaniels.com>
> Subject: Success with Minitar WiFi cards
> To: wireless at lists.samba.org
> Message-ID: <20030820140205.0031c7e4.pldaniels at pldaniels.com>
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> 
> Good day all,
> 
> 	Just thought I'd spread the news that there's a new PCI WiFi card
 >  around under the name of 'Minitar', works fine under
> linux ( even Slackware ).  Best bit about them is that they're cheap,
 >  generally ~$50.
> 
> 	Anyone heard of any WiFi networks being done up north in
 >  Townsville Queensland?
> 
> Regards.
> 
As per the URL
	http://www.nodedb.com/australia/qld/townsville/

We have a reasonable network, peered at the Uni, but not offering
Internet Access. We've been approached by three ISP's to offer
such a service, but we're wary of support issues.

We now have arrangements with two Comms towers on the largest mountain
and will be putting some fibre optic cabling between the two sites.
We'll then have about 7 channels used on Mt Stuart, using location,
direction, polarization and channel spacing to avoid interference.

We are running linux routers using Zebra with ospf (for clients)
and bgp for the core (resiliancy). We also use htb shaping to share
out the bandwidth of the AP's as equitably as possible, and are
also trialling frottle (from e3 in WA).

The next meeting of the Townsville WiFi group is Monday night, 7pm
at Demountable C, Douglas Campus, JCU - refer to the groups homepage
at:
	http://www.townsville.wireless.org.au/
-- 
JohnC
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John Croft, "Zolos the Black"      Internet Accounting, Proxymaster
Manager                                         Firewall & Security
Communications Services        John dot Croft at jcu dot edu dot au
Information Technology & Resources           (aka: Computer Centre)
James Cook University                         Phone: +61 7 47814650
Townsville 4811, Queensland, Australia        Fax:   +61 7 47815230
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