Re: [PLUG] wireless/ricochet

[Kevin Brosius <kbrosius@kns.com>]

Hmm.  I think you need ricochet's equivalent of dns running for the
poletop to route modem signals.  As I mentioned earlier on the list, I
was able to use my modems across the poletop network even after they
disabled the network access portion.  The modem to modem routing worked
for about a month.  After that time, I could still detect poletop radios
with the modems, but they no longer route traffic for me.

Which type of pole mount radio's did you get?  Are they the single
antenna 'poletop', or the wired access point (WAP, 2-3 antenna) type?

My reading suggested only the WAP model had the 2.4G support (top
antenna, on the 3 antenna model.)  Also, note that the 2.4G band is
licensed spectrum, so using it puts you at the risk of dealing with the
FCC.

Kevin


Noah silva wrote:
> 
> 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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