[MLB-WIRELESS] MelbourneWireless Router Project

[Donovan Baarda]

On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 15:19 +1100, Dan Flett wrote:
> >Where do I signup ?
> 
> I'm planning to build a few of these units myself.  The sum of the parts 
> will cost, at a very rough approximation, between $450 and $500, including 
> pigtails but not including other cables, antennas or mast.  I've been 
> looking at the cost of setting up a node using various different methods, 
> and it turns out that doing it this way (with a WRT54G and another AP in a 
> box up a mast) is actually cheaper than putting PCMCIA cradles and wireless 
> cards in an old Pentium PC running Linux.

Have a look at http://minkirri.apana.org.au/Wiki/WirelessNode for a node
costing about $120. This is using a minitar. I've been meaning to add
more info to that page (dimentions, more pic's, how I made the POE
adaptor etc), but there has not been enough interest for me to do it
yet.

The minitar has less flash and RAM than the WRT54G, so it is less easy
to do firmware tweaks. This probably makes it not-so-good for
backbone/routing nodes, but fine for client nodes.

-- 
Donovan Baarda <abo at minkirri.apana.org.au>
http://minkirri.apana.org.au/~abo/


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