[wsfii-discuss] WasabiNet mesh in St. Louis appeared on local TV news!

Thu Oct 28 08:39:04 UTC 2010

Ben,

equinox in Graz did some work to get OLSR support into the Ubiquiti
AirOS and even integrate OLSR configuration with the AirOS UI...

https://wiki.graz.funkfeuer.at/UbntStations

Alex

On 10/27/2010 08:48 PM, Ben West wrote:
> Hi Ulf,
>
> We are using the (OpenWRt-based, with OLSR) ROBIN firmware available
> from open-mesh.com <http://open-mesh.com> ron all 2.4GHz devices.  We
> do this since the OM dashboard is really handy  The access points are
> Open Mesh OM1Ps, a couple Ubiquiti Bullet2HPs, a Nanostation2, and a
> large smattering of Engenuis EOC-1650 and EOC-2160 for cost reasons.  
>
> There are about 4 active nodes right now, out of 49 provisioned.  Most
> nodes just use the integrated antenna or 7dB dipoles, although there
> are now a couple cantennas in place.
> https://dashboard.open-mesh.com/overview2.php?id=wasabinet
>
> Pictures:
> http://picasaweb.google.com/wasabinetsupport/WasabiNetInstallation
> http://picasaweb.google.com/wasabinetsupport/WasabiNetOnYourRooftop
>
> I am happy to hear that reflashing the small Ubiquitis is getting
> easier.  I've actually had some limited success doing on-the-fly
> firmware upgrades on the Bullet2HP with the ROBIN firmware, tho I have
> to SSH into the device and trigger an upgrade manually.
>
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 3:31 AM, Ulf Kypke-Burchardi <ulf at jewel-box.de
> <mailto:ulf at jewel-box.de>> wrote:
>
>     hi ben, very cool, congratulations for you great community
>     wireless project.
>     how many nodes are in the olsr cloud?
>     i saw in the news, you are running ubnt hardware, so if you use
>     olsr, you are using openwrt on it?
>     just yesterday we (some freifunker) finished working on a modified
>     bootloader for the nanostation 2 and bullet 2 to have a bootwait
>     to get access to the bootloader for upgrading firmware
>     no more reset button pressing on rooftops for upgrading!
>     good luck for your fiber uplink,
>     cheers
>     ulf kypke from berlin
>
>
>     On 10/27/10 7:26 AM, Ben West wrote:
>>     KSDK, a local TV station, recorded this interview with Minerva
>>     and myself in May about our OLSR-based wifi mesh in St. Louis, MO
>>     USA.  They finally aired it earlier this month, in anticipation
>>     of Google announcing their plans for 1Gbit fiber deployments in
>>     this country later this year.
>>
>>     The WasabiNet KSDK video from 10/14 is now on Youtube!
>>     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pDpUpRT6ZM
>>
>>     I will be gradually posting this link everywhere I can, but feel
>>     free to share it yourselves!
>>
>>     (P.S. Yes, I did have some caffeine that day.)
>>
>>     More about WasabiNet: http://gowasabi.net
>>
>>     -- 
>>     Ben West
>>     westbywest at gmail.com <mailto:westbywest at gmail.com>
>>
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