Hey All, I wanted to thank the WISPA community for being quite helpful and generous. I have been leading a team to implement/replace an aging wireless network in Honduras for three schools and their volunteer homes. It has been a long year and a half, but it has paid off.
They had 9 locations, 800kbps-3mbps throughput, 100-400ms latency, and +20% loss. Now they have: 9 Locations, 12mbps throughput, 1-4ms latency, between 0-2% packet loss at the schools, and 1-10% packet loss at the volunteer homes. In the year after our April 2009 assessment trip we spent time planning, designing, and running dry runs, we still had to adapt to what was 'on the ground.' It was a challenge properly grounding our 40meter tower, installing the equipment at the various locations, battling contractor costs, freak lightning storms, and a last minute show stopper with routing loops. In the end the schools have a better platform for education & technology, and we hope to support them through the entire process of technology in the hands of the kids. I will be presenting the implementation story to a local user group here in Southern California, I will have the presentation recorded if you all are interested I will make the link available. As promised I have some implementation pictures to share. http://picasaweb.google.com/israel.lopez/HondurasAllPics# This was one of the first Wireless projects with Engineers Without Borders, we are quite proud of the people that have volunteered to help remotely, and in country. I personally would like to see more Technology Engineering projects in developing countries, so if you think you can help, visit one of your local EWB Professional chapters, talk to them, see if technology may be something their communities may need. http://ewb-usa.org/chapters.php. In support of technology projects/professionals in EWB I have created http://EWBTechies.org if you become a member, please join and let us know how you want to help! Special Thanks goes to: Ubiquiti Networks - Donated some radios & helped us RMA a unit right before we left LAX WLANMall.com - For the WiSPY 2.4x that we won for our school Western Digital - Donation of USB Hard Drives for Backup of our Servers & Critical Data Thank You, Israel Lopez -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
