[Cu-wireless] status report

[David Young]

Jon,

Can you see the high school or middle school from your house?  Maybe the
high school has a computer club that will host a node. With a node up
high at the school, it is possible that nodes at your place and at Brian
Foote's, Joe Futrelle's, and Zach Miller's could be connected together.

Dave

On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 07:07:05PM -0600, Jon Dugan wrote:
>   Hmm.  That didn't come out as clearly as I had intended.  
> 
>   I am happy to help out financially by going in on a purchase of  some
>   equipment for the use of the community.
> 
>   In addition I'd like to bring a node up at my house.  I should be able to
>   provide my own equipment for the node.
> 
>   Two seperate things, not at all dependent on one another...
> 
> > On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 05:59:41PM -0600, Jon Dugan wrote:
> > >   I can chip in too.
> > > 
> > >   I live at the corner of Maple and Michigan (one block east of Vine street).
> > >   Any chance of reaching any of the other folks?  If so I have a cable modem
> > >   that we can use for additional bandwidth to the Internet.  
> > > 
> > >   I'd love to have a node on premises to play with -- I think I have enough
> > >   hardware to piece one together.
> > > 
> > > On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 05:45:50PM -0600, Perry Melange wrote:
> > > > Should we place another order for antennas?  I'm willing to pitch in.  
> > > > What do we need (and how much is it)?
> > > > 
> > > > Perry
> > > > 
> > > > On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, David Young wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > There are new stations at Zach's and at Peter Miller's next-door
> > > > > neighbor's. Zach's begins a new network in the vicinity of Urbana
> > > > > High School.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I can barely pick up Zach's at my house, and only if I stick the antenna
> > > > > out the front window in the attic. The roof seems to soak up the signal
> > > > > like a sponge.
> > > > > 
> > > > > At my house, the signal strength hovers around -90dBm. That is way under
> > > > > the LinkSys radio's -80dBm receive sensitivity, but it was just strong
> > > > > enough that I could ssh to Zach's with a Senao card.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Ivan's house is a little nearer to Zach's, I think. Hopefully the signal
> > > > > strength is higher there. If it is, then several of Ivan's neighbors
> > > > > (including me) should be able to get connected.
> > > > > 
> > > > > We will run out of antennas, soon.
> > > > > 
> > > > > It is still on my to-do list to survey Perry's house.
> > > > >   
> > > > > Dave
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > -- 
> > > > Perry Melange      "Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler."
> > > > pmelange at null.cc.uic.edu                              - Albert Einstein
> > > > http://null.cc.uic.edu/~pmelange/resume
> > > > 
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