This is outside my expertise but this might be of use to you: <a href="http://fabfi.fablab.af/">http://fabfi.fablab.af/</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Stewart Dickson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:MathArt@emsh.calarts.edu">MathArt@emsh.calarts.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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A former member of the MakerSpace in Urbana, IL has gone on to the
New America Foundation’s <a href="http://oti.newamerica.net/dashboard" target="_blank">Open Technology
Initiative</a>. See an article about their experiments in
Mesh-Wifi at OccupyDC:<br>
<a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/12/internet-suitcase-dc/all/1" target="_blank">http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/12/internet-suitcase-dc/all/1</a><br>
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Cheers,<br>
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-Stewart<br>
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On 12/26/11 4:00 AM, Overflo wrote:
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<pre>hi todd,
i am forwarding your email to the discuss list of austrias funkfeuer
network.
it actually works very similar to what you are planning.
there is tons of documentation in their wiki.
as for the hardware you might be interested to translate this page:
<a href="http://wiki.funkfeuer.at/index.php/Hardware" target="_blank">http://wiki.funkfeuer.at/index.php/Hardware</a>
@funkfeuer_discuss: please answer directly to todd he is not a subscriber
of this list.
best regards from austria
-flo
On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 03:33:17 -0600, Todd <a href="mailto:todd@cruxtech.net" target="_blank"><todd@cruxtech.net></a> wrote:
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<pre>I am looking to build a mesh network in chicago, The way we are planning
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<pre>to do it is, we have an uplink set up in a datacenter downtown with a
100mbit connection, and a place for the antenna on the building that
will go across the street to the 1st hop, which will then have several
point to point links to the greater mesh network. So the plan is
primarily to have many meshes, probably about 20, each with ~8 wireless
routers, which are connected via point to point bridges. None of this is
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<pre>commercial, so we will not be worrying about things like zoning fr the
antennas since they will all be on private properties. My question is,
does this sound like a good plan, and if so, what specific hardware
should be looking to use ?
Please be specific as in technically specific (5ghz 16.5dbi yagi
antenna) or list the manufacturer/link to hardware that is being
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<pre>suggested.
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