Access Points

What are the different Node Classifications?

Administering an ever expanding network such as ours requires a lot of time and effort. To successfully do this, and to keep things running as smooth as possible, we have defined a basic hierarchy for classifying network nodes.

At the top of this hierarchy are the most important (or 'mission critical') nodes, and working towards the bottom of the hierarchy we find nodes that are less relied upon for network continuity.


Air-Stream Access Points

Below is a map of Air-Stream Wireless nodes across Adelaide, this information will be updated when ever possible subject to conditions. For more information about accessing the network please read our Access Policy. For significantly more detailed information and tools members can log-on to the members only database. Information includes planning tools for node creation, IP & DNS allocations, mapping modules, WEP, terrain, satellite and LOS signal propagation prediction tools.


NOTICE: Interruption to services 11/1/2011 (PM)

*** UPDATE 13/11/2011: Services have now been restored ***
*** UPDATE 13/11/2011: The server will be down again for some time today while another issue is debugged ***
*** UPDATE 12/11/2011: Services have now been restored ***

Just letting you know I will be performing some upgrades on the air-stream
mail server this afternoon/evening, so there may be some interruptions during
this time.

Servers affected:

mail.air-stream.org (Mail / Webmail / LDAP auth)
members.air-stream.org (Members Control Panel / Node DB)

Note: This will also affect logins to the main website www.air-stream.org.

Apologies for the inconvenience.


Mannum connection from Mount Barker

Hi everyone,

I've been a member for a number of months now, but still haven't been able to make it to one of the meetings. I have been poking around the Google map and noticed there is a potential access point going to be put up in Mannum.

I spend a bit of time in Mannum while the missus is living down there, but was interested to know how I could be involved (even as a pure-spectator) or where I could help out with this? If anyone happens to know anything about it?

I'm in the outback northern suburbs with a -24dBi antenna but haven't have the time to put it up yet :-( although have done a basic site survey and know I can hit the Elizabeth AP.

Thanks,

KJ


For sale: 2 wifi setups

Hi,

I am selling my equipment at 2 node setups on OCAU. I forgot to throw it out to the AS community for any takers first.

Basically selling an RB433AH and a RB411 with r52h cards, 25db grids, poles, mounts, coax cables, all ready to go.

http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showthread.php?t=918757 or shoot me an email.

Cheers


Trailer Mounted Mast test for ASLan

On Saturday (7/8/10), Nekron, Shadey and myself went up to Hillcrest to see if we could get a trailer mounted mast connected to the network. It was a successful day! Nekron has written a blog with more details on it here http://www.whatsmoke.com/wordpress/?p=190


For Sale

Hi all,

I have for sale:

2 x Ultrawap V2 90mW AP's (only one power supply)

1 x approx 2.5m RP-SMA extension cable

1 x Superpass 8dBi Omni with N-Male to RP-SMA pigtail

1 x Magnetic Base Omni approx 7dBi RP-SMA connector

I'm open to reasonable offers.


RB on the Roof

The unit is on the roof and pinging Air-Stream-Skye:

[admin@433AH] > ping 10.122.128.1
10.122.128.1 64 byte ping: ttl=64 time=12 ms
10.122.128.1 64 byte ping: ttl=64 time=11 ms
10.122.128.1 64 byte ping: ttl=64 time=11 ms
10.122.128.1 64 byte ping: ttl=64 time=12 ms
10.122.128.1 64 byte ping: ttl=64 time=55 ms
10.122.128.1 64 byte ping: ttl=64 time=11 ms
10.122.128.1 64 byte ping: ttl=64 time=11 ms
10.122.128.1 64 byte ping: ttl=64 time=11 ms
8 packets transmitted, 8 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 11/16.7/55 ms
[admin@433AH] >


Air-Steam-Athelstone

After 2.5 years of flawless operation using OpenWRT flashed Mitsubishi R100 boards (aka Asus WL500G) the Athelstone access point was upgraded in July 2009 to an all Mikrotik Routerboard affair. The upgrade plan was as follows:

  • Keep current backbone antenna, replace backbone radio with a new Mikrotik Routerboard RB433AH and a new 5GHz card, a Mikrotik R5H (old card - still works perfectly, R5H is just better)
  • Upgrade Valley View side of the backbone with a new, better, wireless card
  • Replace omni radio with a dedicated Mikrotik Routerboard RB411A and a new Ubiquiti XR2 card (old card SR2 - a bit flakey)
  • Extend the mast with a 1.5 meter "omni-extension"
  • Replace cheap and nasty omni with a proper Superpass 8dBi omni antenna mounted at the very top of the new omni extension
  • Move backbone antenna as high as possible on the original mast
  • Refresh main guy wires, turnbuckles and wire grips
  • New Cat5e cabling throughout with passive PoE (old system - dedicated 5V wiring)
  • New high performance LMR100 pigtails for all cards
  • New LMR195 short run coax cabling for all antennas
  • All new DIY battery backed 24V power system, individual circuits and Cat5e runs for each board
  • New weatherproof enclosures for both boards
  • Weatherproof screw-on/screw-off RJ45 feedthrough for easy removal of RB433AH enclosure

Decomissioned APs

Decomissioned access points are moved here to remain as a historical record.