The Price is Right?
Sat, 27/10/2007 - 14:09 — frog45We had a meeting with the CTWUG guys about building our first high site. Currently it looks like we will need to spend about R3000 to set up the Access Point. We hope to get feedback from all our members so any suggestions concerning funding and/or technical support are welcome!
The Specs:
1 x Mikrotik Routerboard 133
2 x CM9 Radio's
1 x 120* Sector antenna (providing coverage for all of Stellenbosch)
1 x 14dbi flat panel (for remote admin in case something goes wrong)
1 x Enclosure
+ Wiring and connectors.
Wugmeet - 27 October *UPDATE*
Thu, 25/10/2007 - 17:03 — shagrat69Please inform and tell as many people as you can about our ideas for starting a free WUG, and about the planned meeting.
The meeting will take place at my house, 14 Peeka Street, Die Boord, Stellenbosch. Here is a map with directions:
New Hosting and Domain
Wed, 24/10/2007 - 21:19 — skaapgifDefza (www.defza.co.za) gave us free hosting on their dreamhost.com account! Those with faster internet connections should see an improvement in the loading times of the website. The site is now hosted at www.stbwug.za.net. Thanks to Wish the domain stwug.za.net will also point to the site soon.
There has been some problems with the DNS entries. I forgot to remove the old name server. It will take a while for DNS entries to update but I hope it will be accessible for everyone soon.
Papegaaiberg High site
Tue, 16/10/2007 - 00:20 — skaapgifWe are thinking about using Papegaaiberg rather than Stellenboschberg as high point. This will give us greater coverage, and shorter distances between the Access Point and users.
We have made contact with officials from the municipality who were enthusiastic about our proposal. We are now in negotiations to deal with the technical side of things (eg. the amount of electricity we need, where exactly we can place our antenna, etc.). Hopefully it all goes smoothly and we will start getting a highsite up soon!
