Set up Loth - Afro, Afro - Castro, Castro - Sherman, Sherman - Davis links

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Mesh network between BSC houses.

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Set up Loth - Afro, Afro - Castro, Castro - Sherman, Sherman - Davis links #12

Open CdavM opened 9 years ago

CdavM commented 9 years ago

The planned date is Saturday, May 02, at 10am. We meet at Wilde. We'll see how far we get.

The links planned are:

[x] Loth - Afro
[x] Afro - Castro
[x] Castro - Sherman
[ ] Sherman - Davis (network cable)

mitar commented 9 years ago

Should we try to organize that network cables are put in place in advance?

The antennas are pretty small, so probably we can reuse some of existing poles.

How about renumbering of networks.

We should start inviting people to paint the antennas. I can ask around Cloyne. But we should probably first ask at each respective house.

CdavM commented 9 years ago

Organizing network cables ahead of time might be too ambitious, especially since we don't know where the antennas are going to go. But we can do two things (mount antenna; lay cables) in parallel, so there's no bottlenecks here.

I've sent an email asking them to get someone to paint them and to renumber their antennas. I'm pessimistic about their response, so it would be good to start asking around at Cloyne. We have a lot to paint anyway :)

2015-04-27 15:17 GMT-07:00 Mitar notifications@github.com:

Should we try to organize that network cables are put in place in advance?

The antennas are pretty small, so probably we can reuse some of existing poles.

How about renumbering of networks.

We should start inviting people to paint the antennas. I can ask around Cloyne. But we should probably first ask at each respective house.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/bsc-networks/mesh/issues/12#issuecomment-96837081.

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CdavM commented 9 years ago

Current status of the links:

[x] Loth - Afro
[x] Afro - Castro
[x] Castro - Sherman
[ ] Sherman - Davis (network cable)

mitar commented 9 years ago

I just updated the checkboxes in the description. Then GitHub also nicely shows the progress in the ticket list.

CdavM commented 9 years ago

@nherson Regarding the cable: Wilde has 140ft of CAT6 cable you can use. If that suffices, let me know. If not, @mitar is ordering more soon.

nherson commented 9 years ago

If I remember correctly, I have a massive roll of CAT6 laying around, but I don't have heads for it.

nherson commented 9 years ago

Also, @mitar mentioned an old and dead cable link between Davis and Sherman. Where was that? I had no idea.

mitar commented 9 years ago

I have heads/connectors for CAT6.

It is just going there from the third floor Sherman to second floor Davis. I am not sure how to describe it.

nherson commented 9 years ago

Ok. I am going to try to run a cable from the Davis attic across the alley way. I can work on it during dead week. Any chance you can give me the MAC address of the router I'll be getting so that I can assign it an IP?

mitar commented 9 years ago

Routers will have static IPs configured, so that they do not depend on house network being up for them to work. Your house mesh router will have IP 10.20.51.200.

If you want, I can come and help you during the dead week. Probably few others can also join.