[wha-net-discuss] wireless net test 1

[Nicholas Twist]

Adrian, I was wondering what were the problems with the "box on the
roof". So, it's the power supply not getting enough juice do you
think? An easy thing to try is to find  a wall wart with a couple more
volts  than the "proper" ones are measured at. Pretty safe thing to
try.

On 10/10/2008, Adrian Soundy <liberation_software at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I have been playing around with 7 of Julians open-mesh mini routers
>
> All have been added to the wha.net.nz mesh network so if you zoom in on the
> Kaikokopu road cluster you will see all the nodes and the connections
> between them.
>
> Before doing any tests I plugged all 7 routers into the internet and let
> them upgrade themselves to the latest stable release.
> This took about 2 hours before all had been updated.
>
> Next I placed them around the house with 6 as repeaters and 1 as a gateway.
> When you switch on a node it takes about 5 minutes to come up as a repeater.
> It first checks its lan connection for an internet connection before
> deciding to configure itself as a repeater.
>
> I now walked around the house with a laptop to make sure all nodes could be
> seen and then waited for the status to be relected on the website. When up
> and running they update their status to the web site every 5 minutes.
>
> Now I tried a few tests
>
> On a running repeater(#7) I plugged in an internet connection and waited.
> After about 20mins it was up as gateway and some nodes had moved to using
> it.
>
> Now I disconnected the other gateway and the rest of nodes moved over to new
> gateway.
>
> Reconnected gateway and nodes moved back to using it.
>
> All this takes time to happen, about 15 minutes or more till you see each
> test reflected on web site.
>
>
> The next test was to try using the Orangemesh front end.
>
> I installed this on a local Kunbuntu box and updated the open-mesh site with
> the address of the new front end.
> Nothing happened so I started looking at what was going wrong. First I found
> that you need to change a parameter so the gateway can access the local
> network, which affects all gateways. Then I found that although the update
> site address parameter was changing on the router it still wasn't working,
> it was still updating the normal site. Now I dug a bit deeper and found the
> script that updates the site and found it was hard coded with the open-mesh
> site and didn't look at the parameters. Maybe a test release fixes this.
> Patching my address into the script fixed the problem and the orangemesh
> site worked. There are less options on the Orangemesh front end but it does
> work.
>
> These routers run an adhoc network for the mesh and an open and secure AP
> all off the same radio. I thought I would try hiding the Secure AP as there
> was a parameter for it on the config site. This didn't work either.
>
> It seems what we are running here is very much a work in progress. Maybe a
> test release will be more complete.
>
> The next thing I decided to look at was the problems we were having with the
> POE( Power over Ethernet ) at Guyton street and Mount View road but I will
> leave that for the next posting.
>
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