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NABX WiFi

im_electronic - 15-3-2008 at 05:34 AM

I have Sprint wireless braodband and a wireless mesh system

the access I'm providing will work for e-mail and basic web surfing, no videos/VoIP though. This will be free, donations accepted.

It will be up at the conference when I am there. If anyone has 12v power or 120AC available that wants to host connectivity gear let me know. depending on what power you have available and how long your at NABX the internet could be up all week. (I'm staying in buffalo bills every other night)

If you have a internet connection and want to help add a feed to the network let me know, the mesh will take multiple feeds and use them to speed things up. I have a spare router that takes a PCMCIA card, or can set up your laptop as a feed/router.

in primm there is a pay-per-use network (cheetah systems I believe) using a DD-WRT'd router I was able to "share" one paid account to my neighbors in the hotel.

so post here what you have available to help/questions/comments/concerns.

anyone want to know my setup?

NABX - 15-3-2008 at 08:25 AM

Maybe latecomers could use your setup to register on site. Just a thought.

deanaoxo - 15-3-2008 at 09:24 AM

Having an internet connection on site would help a great deal, and not only for late registration, which will be a major bonus to keeping our people in their buggies and not hanging around the tent dealing with people that some how or another didn't manage to get it together!

NABX supports this effort and will do whatever we can to see to it you have power and any thing else we can provide.

Thank you so much for this awesome contribution to our community buggy town!

pure aoxomoxoa~!

Crash - 15-3-2008 at 04:25 PM

Howdy Dean,My daughter is bringing her laptop .Give her a job helping you ,she's good For that stuff .she's planning to download pics and what happens at the time of the event.Like any 11yo ,she'll be looking for things to do and probably knows more than we do with computers.We plan on making a movie about NABX for you tube and her school project.I know when she see's how comfy you and John Ellis are in the RV she's gonna be asking me to buy one when we get home.Make sure you have some story's and pics of the pre event when we have our pow wow.Stay Safe Dean ,TTYS

deanaoxo - 16-3-2008 at 10:36 AM

If she is up for it, she can be one of our guest photographers. We need daily pictures posted on the web site during the event, and of course uploading these has always been a problem, so it sounds like we are really on to something here!

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Originally posted by Crash
Howdy Dean,My daughter is bringing her laptop .Give her a job helping you ,she's good For that stuff .she's planning to download pics and what happens at the time of the event.Like any 11yo ,she'll be looking for things to do and probably knows more than we do with computers.We plan on making a movie about NABX for you tube and her school project.I know when she see's how comfy you and John Ellis are in the RV she's gonna be asking me to buy one when we get home.Make sure you have some story's and pics of the pre event when we have our pow wow.Stay Safe Dean ,TTYS

Chip - 17-3-2008 at 11:06 AM

I'll be out with my Dad and we'll be staying on the playa in his 5th wheel all week. We have pretty stout batteries that we charge daily with an AC generator. Provided it doesn't use a huge amount of power, we'd be able to host it safely in our camper and keep the connection live all week.

Chip

im_electronic - 17-3-2008 at 05:29 PM

I'm steven murphy, will be my second nabx(bought a buggy from dean last year), third for my bro alan (had the toyota truck with problems a few years ago)

I'm also goin to have a live webcam up as well I hope, 30 sec updates on the trip (live while driving) there, pre-event, then at ivanpah, will post site here once I get it up and running. it will be taken down if it's too much of a bandwidth issue.


anyone have a good solar panel source/suggestion? I have good gel cels that'll power most this for the week I think, but looking at a charging solution.

some of my mesh units will also have a solar power setup to them, so will just need good placement, one at the big tent, another wherever. will be a good experiment, by the second day at the main event all should be set and secure.

chip, thanks for the offer, will see you there to get it all setup. I have an antenna than just needs near window/high up setup.

crash and daughter, should work out great, probably stick away from large file size picture uploads( the connection should get ~1.0 Mbs down, 300K up).

last year talking to staff at bills, they were planning on in room/hotel covered access. I will investigate this and see what we can do with it :)

Crash - 17-3-2008 at 07:52 PM

Steve,My pal Tom can give me a Remote camera mount that hangs on a single line kite ,can ya use ? would be a cool web cam..He He ...Great news with pre event ,I wanted to hear the story's so i'm hunting ya down when we get there.Very Nice to meet ya !.....Dean , when they finally build that Solor power plant on the side of the hill ,have them run a feed down to buggytown for juice, and maybe they can deflect one of those mirrors our way to cook some burgers too......now if my wife could be so simple with planning my trip....I'm all set ..."Thanks to you guys" !....Be carefull, and don't look at that cam while your driving Steve ! <**> see yall soon !

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im_electronic - 18-3-2008 at 01:44 AM

i dont have a feed for video to the et thats low power, cool idea though, could feed that into a minidv camcorder

Crash - 18-3-2008 at 05:07 AM

Just an Idea,It takes decent pics, even with a 3 mp camera.Might bring it anyway ? I'm bringing a mini dv cam and camera my daughter will probably play with.....TTYS

im_electronic - 18-3-2008 at 08:50 AM

sounds good,

I just bought this solar kit, will be mounting to my camper shell hopefully: http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnu...

powering a repeater for the wifi, laptops and nighttime lights.

i'm giving the setup a test run this week with two laptops and lights for a load.

kitemaker4 - 18-3-2008 at 09:42 AM

That is one sweet set up.

Susan (npw goddess)

im_electronic - 3-4-2008 at 11:55 AM

got the wifi set up wendsday fully, getting 100kbps symetric, better than dial up, had the wrond gear sent to me last week or we'd have DSL speeds, it'll be up most of the day, off at night to save power, if its out then georges power went out, we think we fixed that problem, have the tent hall and most all of camp covered in the mesh.

im_electronic - 7-4-2008 at 07:33 PM

so who used the connection? was it useful?

DAKITEZ - 7-4-2008 at 07:41 PM

I tried, but I couldn't connect to the internet. I was connected to you, but couldn't access the internet. I'm not that computer savy and didn't try to hard. Thanks for supplying it and all your work to get it done.

mak - 8-4-2008 at 04:25 AM

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Originally posted by im_electronic
so who used the connection? was it useful?


Checked it with that little Nokia 770 and got a connection without any issues. Didn't use it for anything though as I was staying well away from my emails for the week:lol:

CyberMuZ - 8-4-2008 at 09:42 AM

Hey Steven,

Great work on the Wi-Fi bro. It is a great convenience to allow daily updates on the site.

I am sorry that the rig didn't work in the hotel though. It just wasn't flying.

Before next year why don't you and I get together here in my lab and we will put together a solution and get it tested so it will be alot easier for you to setup next year. We may be even be able to get a link to Primm " Line of sight allowing ". A little beer, some grilling and flipping circuits sounds like a good day to me. :)

Cheers!!!
Todd "Scooter"