The Australian Public Access Network Association SA (APANA) Node on North Terrace was upgraded on 3rd February 2007. This was one of the first sites in the Air-Stream network to deploy a WRAP 1-1 embedded wireless router three years ago and has been running with good success ever since that time. See: old set-up
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During the last few years we have been upgrading backbones on the core network to 802.11a with great success and after some planning the equipment was put together for an upgrade on this site funded by Air-Stream Wireless members. As seen in the stitched image above the site has good LOS from the North West around to the North East of Adelaide CBD. Access is possible from the ground along North Terrace, Adelaide Uni, the SA Museum and surrounding public areas.
The site deploys two WRAP 2 board (128MB) seen above which have been housed in customised metal water-proof enclosures. The larger enclosure includes a 5 port 100base switch which has been modified with a switch mode regulator to down-convert the 18V DC injected over the Ethernet cable from the basement some 60 metres below.
Due to the long cable run there is a 2V drop and now there are two routers we have upgraded the POE system to a 18 Volt DC 120Watt power supply. The system is short circuit protected and incorporates a LPT control PCB to allow a power cycled of the WRAP units above via the Internet or from the alternate router, if in the rare case of system lock-up.
Note: The waveguide above has been replaced with a 8dbi Superpass Omni
The site now provides not only better coverage because of high speed backbones to Highgate Park and Walkerville but also deploys two high power APs with better driver support under Air-Stream’s customized router OS.
Access Point:
North Sector Horizontal Polarization – ssid: Air-Stream-APANA-H
Omni Vertical Polarisation – ssid: Air-Stream-APANA-V
Backbones:
Air-Stream-Walkerville – 5.8Ghz
Air-Stream-Julia-Farr – 5.8Ghz
Air-Stream-Ridleyton
Air-Stream-Woodville-West