What was the initial plan for this router? Cheers!!
On May 21, 2013, at 7:25 PM, Colin Stanners <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, we (Skullspace Winnipeg) had gotten a Project Bismark router but put it > aside when it had issues a while ago (lost configuration IIRC). Now we're > sorting out old gear we have around - do you want it mailed back, or we can > reload the firmware and mail it to someone else who's interested in > participating in the project, or we can check if any of our members want to > participate in the project by using the router. > > Thanks. > > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Stephen Woodrow <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello BISmark user, > > I'm pleased to announce that the BISmark team has just released a new > version of the BISmark router software (firmware), code-named 'Quirm'. > It has a bunch of new features to make network measurement and > experimentation better, while also smoothing down some of the rough > edges from our previous release. Keep on reading below to learn more > about the release and how you can start using it. > > We've also made some changes to our privacy statement that will take > effect on 1 May 2012. Keep reading for more on that too. > > I want to thank you for participating in Project BISmark. We've learned a > lot (and continue to learn!) about how to conduct user-friendly > measurements from real homes, thanks to your help and patience. Please > let us know how we can do better -- we're always listening at > [email protected]. > > --Steve Woodrow, on behalf of the BISmark Team > > New features > ------------ > > First off, we've made the router a bit easier to use. You can access the > router management interface by visiting myrouter.projectbismark.net from > inside your home network. From there, you can click through directly to > your router's data page on networkdashboard.org (no more manual entry of > MAC addresses!) or visit the improved router configuration app. > > We've also added a new BISmark Experiments panel to the the router > configuration application. This panel, accessed via the > "BISmark > Experiments" menu item, allows to you see the current set of > experiments installed on the router and participate in optional > experiments that we plan to make available soon. We will let you know > when new experiments are available. > > To make the BISmark router more like other home routers, we enabled the > reset and WiFi buttons. The reset button on the bottom of the router > will now restore the router to its original state if held for five > seconds -- handy if you accidentally misconfigure your router. The WiFi > button on the front of the router now toggles the WiFi radios in the > router on or off. > > Finally, we've made some under-the-hood changes that will allow us to > start measuring against the Measurement Lab [1] measurement platform. > This means that BISmark's measurements will start targeting a server > closer to you, which should result in more accurate throughput > measurements. The use of M-Lab has necessitated a small change in our > privacy statement -- more on that below. > > For the hackers and researchers in the crowd, we've also patched the > router with the web100 kernel patches. Find full list of new features > and changes, in all its nerdy glory, at > https://github.com/projectbismark/bismark-openwrt-overlay/blob/master/BISMARK-CHANGELOG.markdown > > How to get the new BISmark firmware > ----------------------------------- > > Already have a BISmark router? You can install the upgrade yourself, or > we can do it for you if you give us permission. Full details are at > https://github.com/projectbismark/projectbismark/wiki/Upgrading-to-Quirm > > If you don't have a BISmark router, we may be able to send you a router > if you live in an 'interesting' area or have an 'interesting' ISP. We > are particularly interested in talking to Europeans, Australians, > Canadians, and folks in the U.S. who are located outside of the states > of California and Georgia and who do not have Comcast or AT&T as an ISP. > Sign up at http://goo.gl/bxBB0 > > Privacy Statement changes > ------------------------- > > As I mentioned above, we have made some changes to our Privacy > Statement. Beginning on 1 May 2012, the BISmark team may share active > measurement data collected by BISmark routers with other researchers and > Measurement Lab [1], and the public IP address of the collecting BISmark > router will be included in any active measurement data that is shared. > > These changes only affect data related to performance measurements of > your Internet service by the BISmark software on your BISmark router. > The BISmark router does not collect information from your network > traffic, and the BISmark team will never share your personal information > with others (not even other researchers). > > You can check out the full text of the current and new Privacy > Statements, the line-by-line changes, and the rationale for these > changes in more detail in our blog post about this change at > http://blog.projectbismark.net/project-bismark-privacy-statement-changes > > [1] http://measurementlab.net > _______________________________________________ > bismark-participants mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.noise.gatech.edu/listinfo/bismark-participants > > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/
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