Re: [guadec-list] Wireless Guadec

[Paul Cooper <pgc openadvantage org>]

Hi Gil,

----- "gil forcada" <gilforcada guifi net> wrote:
> have you meet with the IT guy? there's any news in this front?

Yes - the university have finally decided that the best option is to install ADSL. The order went in yesterday, the installation should have in 7-10 days, i.e. sometime between 9th - 12th July. Since we have 2 ADSL lines going in the only outstanding thing to decide wrt that is whether we do channel bonding or not - if we do want channel bonding the preferred hardware of the ISP is a Firebrick,

http://aaisp.net.uk/aa/firebrick/

which I guess we could rent.
 
> last year we have a pre-guadec building, if we can't access the venue
> until 15th it will help alot to have some kind of room to get things
> done and to prepare the deployment

Yes - the OpenAdvantage offices will be open on the 14th so we can all get together, plan, and reflash AP's as necessary.

> anyone willing to help in the wi-fi area? it seems that carles and
> ramon
> can't go to Brimingham, so I'm alone ... help me! :)

I know Rob is keen to help out and I'm willing to be the roady on Sat & Sun. I'm sure that Thomas, Aidan and Bastien could help out at times if needed.

Paul

> El ds 23 de 06 del 2007 a les 09:14 +0100, en/na Rob Bradford va
> escriure:
> > On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 20:28 +0200, Ramon Navarro bosch wrote:
> > > Hi guys !
> > > 
> > > I really suggest that you use cable between the devices instead of
> using
> > > OLSR, maybe your performance is going to go down quickly if there
> are
> > > too much noise ( you must think that all the elements needs to be
> on the
> > > same channel if you use OLSR ad-hoc network ). So, if you want to
> use
> > > the OLSR you should enable the dhcp server on all the devices and
> define
> > > a different range for each one, otherwise the people will need to
> have
> > > the OLSR daemon and I think that's something that is not a good
> idea on
> > > a guadec conference with a lot of laptop's people.  You must think
> that
> > > every 3 jumps on OLSR the performance is really poor.  As 
> firmware for
> > > this the best opiton is freifunk... it's really cool and it allow
> to do
> > > everything.
> > 
> > The problem with interconnecting the devices phsyically is that we
> might
> > not get access to the network sockets in the rooms and also that
> > trailing ethernet cables around (especially when we can't get into
> the
> > venue in advance.)
> > 
> > > Me and Carles have problems and we still don't know if we are
> going to
> > > be able to come to Birmingham, as we also don't know where we can
> sleep,
> > > we prefer to advise you now that is possible that we will not
> come.
> > 
> > If it's a matter of the cost of accommodation then we can certainly
> > arrange for a room in the Etap which is where a lot of the
> delegates
> > are. 
> > 
> > > If you have any questions about it, you can send an email and we
> will
> > > try to help as much as possible!
> > 
> > Perhaps the best bet would be to concentrate on deploying a useful
> > network in the bar and hacking area near the cafe. Something very
> > simple. The access points all physically connected, etc.
> > 
> > I'm willing to step up look after getting this stuff sorted, and if
> > you're able to come along, great, the more hands the merrier.
> > 
> > I hope that we'll be able to persuade the IT people to let us patch
> our
> > own switch into some of the points around the building (i.e. only
> using
> > their physical infrastructure.)
> > 
> > Cheerio,
> > 
> > Rob
> -- 
> gil forcada
> 
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