I decided on a sanity check of what is available via the BARWN node on Mt. San Bruno, so I got ahold of a laptop and took a little drive.
The good news I learned is this: Boy is the view lovely! The rest of what i learned is not as good... I found what I'm pretty sure was the BARWN box, on the North/West-most tower site. It had a Burning Man sticker on the side, and looked like what I remembered from pics on the BARWN site. It had one blue cable coming out, which I think is the power-over-ethernet cable. It had 2 black cables coming out, one going to a ~2 foot dish antenna, and one going to a small, >1 foot omni antenna. I had my laptop trolling for SSID's but found none, regardless of where I waved my laptop...I even stood on my tiptoes and stuck the antenna into the beam of the dish antenna. I found a spot about 40ft from the omni, and at about the same horizon with the omni, so I believe I was well in the omni's coverage zone. At no point did I ever see any SSID at all. Oddly, there is another dish directly between the omni and San Francisco, just inches from the omni. This ~4 foot dish is a lattice, with about 4-5 inches space between the bars, which are all horizontal. I presume whoever set up the various dishes knew what they were doing when they stuck this non-BARWN dish between the BARWN omni and its prospective users in SF? Does 2.4GHz pass thru 4-5 inch gaps intact? So I guess these questions remain: 1) Does BARWN have a publicly accesible node on Mt. San Bruno? (yes or no) 2) If yes, what is the SSID? 3) If yes, when is the last time anyone connected to it? Thanks, -dave -- Dave Marandino [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
