DWC

[Skydog]

All I can say to start with is that i have never seen Luke so excited about something before. The look on his face when Tobias told us that he did not have the keys to the roof was just sheer disappointment.

Luke suggested that we go anyway because we can just set the stuff up on Tobias's balcony. We arrived at Tobias's and booted up the PC router that Luke had built up on the balcony while we contemplated who we were going to get the keys from or if we should just break the lock and replace.

Well, there I'm sitting trying to figure out why we cant pick up any networks with or PC of d00m when someone proudly walks in and says "we have roof access" . I was stunned as for Luke he was ecstatic and we moved all the stuff to the roof. We shared the tasks except for Neil who arrived strategically late so he missed the drilling.

There is a PC board with a Duron 700Mh CPU + 64MB ram in an awesome enclosure. We put a PCI riser with space for 4 radios.

We put in 3 radios and attached a 24 dBi 5GHz grid to dbn4 and a 12 dBi 2.4Ghz yagi for the direction of Berea. The third Radio is in anticipation of the link to westville

We tested the link to town by a never ending download from one of the WRTs in town. It maxed out at 1.6MB/s we assuming that the WRT is at full load. so we await to see the true speeds of the 5Ghz link to town.

Well Done guys

pics of install http://www.wug.za.net/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=2200