[hackerspaces] Mesh network specs

[Tim Saylor]

This is outside my expertise but this might be of use to you:
http://fabfi.fablab.af/

On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Stewart Dickson
<MathArt at emsh.calarts.edu>wrote:

> **
> A former member of the MakerSpace in Urbana, IL has gone on to the New
> America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative<http://oti.newamerica.net/dashboard>.
> See an article about their experiments in Mesh-Wifi at OccupyDC:
> http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/12/internet-suitcase-dc/all/1
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Stewart
>
> On 12/26/11 4:00 AM, Overflo wrote:
>
> 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:http://wiki.funkfeuer.at/index.php/Hardware
>
> @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 <todd at cruxtech.net> <todd at cruxtech.net> wrote:
>
>  I am looking to build a mesh network in chicago, The way we are planning
>
>  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
>
>  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
>
>  suggested.
>
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