Hello All,
My name is Charles Wyble and I'm the CTO and founder of socalwifi.net.
More information on the project can be found at
http://www.socalwifi.net/index.php/Main_Page
There is a substantial amount of information on the internet about mesh,
solar powered access points, firmware etc. However it's somewhat
scattered, a lot of do it yourself bits to it etc. Nothing wrong with
that approach by any means, but it somewhat limits participation to more
technically inclined folks, and can be somewhat frustrating and time
consuming before getting any return.
The goal of our project is to create a low cost, integrated, fully grid
independent solution for use by people to provide service in their
neighborhoods/cities all over the world.
Our solution is based on the Nanostation2 from ubnt.com
http://ubnt.com/products/ns2.php (weather proof, great range (about half
of a US city block, and covered an entire strip mall) utilizing lightly
modified firmware from http://ff-firmware.sourceforge.net/
We are using http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SheevaPlug
to provide infrastructure bits (such as splash page/local ads
(classifieds/job hunting/elgg for social networking)
Netsukuku has obvious interest for us, as it can help with a lot of
network setup issues. The access layer and application part is pretty
straightforward, however scalability and management of nodes is an issue.
We are currently evaluating both olsrd and batman for use with netsukuku
. Feel free to chat with me in IRC or the mailing list. :)
I look forward to testing things out and providing my feedback.
I'll be posting my progress on my twitter feed (
http://www.twitter.com/charlesnw ) and my blog
(http://cnwccxx.blogspot.com/) and will post summaries to the list as I
go along.
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