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RE: [PLUG] wireless/ricochet
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This isn't an eradio for a WAP, it is a poletop (repeater) radio, so I
don't think it has an ethernet port. I am going to try to configure it to
repeat signals from the normal consumer radios though. Then, f.e. I can
put it on my roof and power it up. I can use one ricochet modem in my
house, and one down the street. Because of the elevation, the poletop may
be able to repeat the signal where the modems might not get a direct
connection. The poletops were originally programmed to do this, as they
offered private network service. Later, they decided to offer only
internet service, so they disabled this feature ;(
Also, the poletops can communicate between themselves at 2.4 ghz. With
two of them, I could set one up on top of my house, one at a
friend's. We should have fairly good ricochet coverage between and around those
locations.
But, we'll see when I have time to actually play.
-- noah silva
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Jeyes, David (371) wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kevin Brosius [mailto:kbrosius@kns.com]
> > Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 11:39 AM
> > To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] wireless/ricochet
> >
> >
> > Well, okay, so did I... But then I considered how much time it might
> > take to reverse engineer the thing trying to get it to route traffic
> > again. I decide I wasn't up for the task. Now if we got
> > ahold of some
> > tech documentation about the command protocol for routing... That's a
> > different story.
> >
> It's my understanding (after talking to one of the guys that threw the
> radios up there. . . ) that the radio is simply a transmitter that receives
> information from a standard switch and broadcasts it on a particular
> frequency. So, other than overcoming authentication, which just may mean
> having one of their modems, you should be able to plug and play.
>
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