From saul at twenteenthcentury.com  Tue Aug  9 18:05:41 2005
From: saul at twenteenthcentury.com (Saul Albert)
Date: Tue Aug  9 18:10:40 2005
Subject: [Consume-thenet] workshop: Friday Freifunk Wrt Yurt Flash Fest -
	12th August 2005
Message-ID: <20050809170541.GA41515@chinabone.lth.bclub.org.uk>

Dear wireless londoners, consumers, east-enders,

A bunch of people invite you to...

__Friday Freifunk Wrt Yurt Flash Fest__

    * where: Mute Magazine's Wireless Yurt HQ: Unit 9, The Whitechapel
             Centre, 85 Myrdle Street, London E1 1HQ.

    * when: Friday 12th August 2005 12noon - 5pm
    * what: This will be an opportunity to learn to build a meshed
            network using cheap and easily available consumer components,
            and look at the possibilities of using it to communicate in
            and about your local area.

    * activities:
          o Flashing Wrts in a Yurt.
          o Setting up a Wireless London node.
          o other options for mesh networking using easy, non-expert
            consumer technology.
    * spatial info services:
          o what are they.
          o how to use them.
          o how to bulid them.

    * questions
          o What kinds of information do we need to know about our
            locality.
          o What information resources are there available to us online
            and off-line.
          o What other kinds of services can we imagine needing and
            wanting in the future?


If you want to come, please just turn up, but let us know you're coming..
email ffwyff@dodgeit.com to rsvp - so we know how many almond fingers to
bring. Actually, bring your own almond fingers.

From grimoire at sparky.ox.compsoc.net  Wed Aug 17 18:50:23 2005
From: grimoire at sparky.ox.compsoc.net (Dave Page)
Date: Wed Aug 17 18:50:27 2005
Subject: [Consume-thenet] [OT] Borrowing wifi kit in Birmingham?
Message-ID: <20050817175023.GM943@antipode.bike-shed.org.uk>

Bit of an offtopic request for now (my attempts to set up a node have
been vetoed by the owner of the wifi connection in question), but I'm
trying to connect two shops in Selly Oak, Birmingham using directional
wifi aerials. The range is short (approx. 100 feet) but there's not
quite LOS, there's the corner of a building in the way.

I'm not keen on forking out for directional wifi kit if this isn't going
to work, nor am I keen to fork out for a second ADSL line and the hassle
of VPN (there's already an IPSec-based wifi network in one shop, so all
I need is something to relay packets down the directional antennae) if
it is. I was wondering if anyone in the Birmingham area has access to
this kind of kit and would let me borrow it for testing. I'd be happy to
pay (or reward in beer) for this service.

Cheers,

Dave
-- 
<Sciamachy> If you're going to survive as a goth, you will need to develop
  a thick skin & a hearty sense of self-deprecating ironic humour around an
  iron-hard core of self-awareness & centredness.
<FatherPerf> Or just carry a shotgun to school under your trenchcoat.
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From james at spc.org  Wed Aug 17 20:52:38 2005
From: james at spc.org (james stevens)
Date: Wed Aug 17 20:52:25 2005
Subject: [Consume-thenet] [OT] Borrowing wifi kit in Birmingham?
In-Reply-To: <20050817175023.GM943@antipode.bike-shed.org.uk>
References: <20050817175023.GM943@antipode.bike-shed.org.uk>
Message-ID: <43039586.8010309@spc.org>

Hi Dave,

Dave Page wrote:

>Bit of an offtopic request for now (my attempts to set up a node have
>been vetoed by the owner of the wifi connection in question), but I'm
>trying to connect two shops in Selly Oak, Birmingham using directional
>wifi aerials. The range is short (approx. 100 feet) but there's not
>quite LOS, there's the corner of a building in the way.
>  
>
I expect the basic antenna on your wlan pci card or access point would 
give you the reach of 100ft when you tested did you not see the link..? 
you may be interested in this flatenna design which we use sometimes.. 
http://tritium.co.uk for ?6.95..

>I'm not keen on forking out for directional wifi kit if this isn't going
>to work, nor am I keen to fork out for a second ADSL line and the hassle
>of VPN (there's already an IPSec-based wifi network in one shop, so all
>I need is something to relay packets down the directional antennae) if
>it is. I was wondering if anyone in the Birmingham area has access to
>this kind of kit and would let me borrow it for testing. I'd be happy to
>pay (or reward in beer) for this service.
>  
>
i claim my beer

easy

James

>Cheers,
>
>Dave
>  
>
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