[MLB-WIRELESS] GHO-South

[Brenton D.]

okay
I shall connect back to gho-mobile when i get some coax.

the 24 dbi is actually pointing at it, just have no cash for coax.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Flett" <conhoolio at hotmail.com>
To: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 10:19 PM
Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] GHO-South


> Hi All,
>
> As you may all be aware, we currently have three wireless interfaces up at
> Node GHO.  They are GHO-North - pointed at the Northern Suburbs, 
> GHO-Mobile
> which is an Omnidirectional antenna, and GHO-South, which is pointed at 
> the
> Southern Region.
>
> At the moment, we in the Southern Region are having trouble even getting a
> sniff of the GHO-South interface.  We're not sure if this is a hardware
> issue - possibly water damage - or if it is simply due to the interface
> being overwhelmed with too many clients.  We need to work out what the
> problem is so we can re-establish the link to the Southern Region.
>
> I will shortly be "locking-down" GHO-South by restricting access.  I want 
> to
> see if it is possible to re-establish the link to the Southern Region by
> reducing the number of clients on GHO-South.  Sorry to anyone who this may
> disadvantage, but the ugly fact is that 802.11b has it's limitations,
> especially in long-range, outdoor applications.
>
> If it is indeed the case that GHO-South is suffering too many clients, I
> will look at ways to allow multiple clients - such as RTS/CTS and/or
> Frottle.  This will require that each client meet certain conditions to be
> allowed access.  The general idea is that GHO is supposed to be a backbone
> node, not a general-access node - people that access GHO should be looking
> to share their GHO connection in their local area.  As new clients are 
> added
> I will monitor the impact on throughput.
>
> Of course, the short-term result may be that kicking people off GHO-South
> may not re-establish the link to the Southern Region.  If this is the case 
> I
> will still keep the interface locked-down and try to find the source of 
> the
> problem.  If and when we fix the problem I'll look at re-introducing other
> clients to the GHO-South interface.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dan
>
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