I'll be arriving on 14th of July. If it's not too late, I can help as well.
On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 12:05 +0100, Paul Cooper wrote: > Hi Gil, > > ----- "gil forcada" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > > > [ca] guifi.net - una xarxa lliure que no para de créixer > > [en] guifi.net - a non-stopping free network > > bloc: http://gil.badall.net > > _______________________________________________ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
