Air-Stream-Ridleyton
Ridleyton is a core access point of the Air-Stream network with a backbone to Ottoway. over the years it has had many connections to other places.
The worst thing thats ever happened to Air-Stream was when the pole, antennas, and access points were stolen from the roof of the site in mid 2005. Within a few months the site had been restored thanks to the generosity of members to get this up and running as quick as possible.
For information on connecting to this access point please contact the Committee
Images
Images by Didz
This is the Router.
Constant cool air flow passes though the plant room, the router has no heat problems.
Above is the mast.
13-09-2003
13/09/03
In this upgrade a link to Carrick Hill was made.
Quoted by Sebby from http://www.sebbynet.net/wan/news/archive.htm
I had a quick visit at the end of today to see how the installation of the 6m mast at Air-Stream-Ridleyton Node had progressed. The guys were finishing off attaching a parabolic antenna and raising the mast when I arrived.
23-08-2003
23/08/03
This was the very fisrt installation of ridleyton
Quoted by Sebby from http://www.sebbynet.net/wan/news/archive.htm
Today I had the opportunity to meet up with some of the South Australian Air-Stream wireless members to work on the Air-Stream-Ridleyton Node. I provided some wireless gear (Orinoco PCMCIA card, connectors, pigtail, etc...) which was required to mount a second parabolic antenna at Air-Stream-Ridleyton Node which was planed to be used as a second backbone link to the Air-Stream-Skye Node. It was great to finally meet up and have a good look at the workings of another node. Unfortunately the weather was appalling throughout the day and hampered our efforts, hence the job remained uncompleted and left the Air-Stream-Ridleyton Node off-line
Images by Sebby
4-12-2005
Information
During this day a second mast was installed with a Hills 25db dish to link to Ottoway, The original pole and Hills 25db dish was aligned link to APANA NW. While aligned correctly the dish can pick up Air-Stream-Glen-Osmond slightly better.
The buildings next door had been pulled down so this gave a rare opportunity to have a view of areas never seen beofre from the Ridleyton site.
Stumber Logs
Ridleyton stumbler logs 4-12-05.rar
All scans were done with a Senao 802.11b 200mw PCMICA wireless card provided by Didz.
5 files are included:
20051204141516 Ridleyton 19db pacmon 360 V.ns1
20051204142316 Ridleyton 19db pacmon 360 H.ns1
20051204145939 Ridleyton omni V.ns1
20051204151839 Ridleyton align to Ottoway H.ns1
20051204154748 Ridleyton align to APANA NW and Glen Osmond H.ns1
Images
Getting ready to install the second mast.
Robert mounting the Hills 25db dish.
Attached guy wires and tightning everything up.
The team who made this day possible; Betsuin, Didz, Sam S, Robert and Samiam.
Air-Stream-Ridleyton Reinstalled
A new mast and antenna was installed on Sunday 11th September at Ridleyton and backboned to Ottoway. After some tweaking the site is now fully operational.
Many thanks to Sam H, Sam S, Steve, Didz and Foodlands for making this site possible.
Backbone to Ottoway, Backbone to APANA
After adding a second mast and aligning an antenna
and overcoming a problem at the APANA end
Ridleyton is now acting as a bridge between two parts of the network
Part 1:
Ottoway
Northfield
Salisbury
Part 2:
APANA and beyond
The Rest
The Ridleyton APANA link is only using a 30mW radio with considerable amount of coax, so there are plans undeway to improve the radio strength and allow for 802.11a upgrades in the future more to come
The Ridleyton Ottoway link is stable
If you want to test your connectivity to Ridleyton AP
Sam Hodge (aka samiam)
is running a web server at http://10.114.0.27 or http://lenny.samiam.ridleyton.wan
Sam
If you see the following in your route tables you are connected to Ridleyton:
10.121.0.0/27 AP Range 10.104.0.0/27 Client subnet 10.104.2.32/27 Client subnet 10.104.0.32/27 Client subnet 10.104.0.224/28 Client subnet 10.125.0.8/30 Ottoway Backbone 10.125.128.24/30 APANA Backbone