Comments on: Finally Broadband in the Forrest! http://www.techspot.com/blog/44/finally-broadband-in-the-forrest/ Technology news and commentary by the TechSpot.com staff Tue, 04 Dec 2012 03:40:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Sachin Gopal http://www.techspot.com/blog/44/finally-broadband-in-the-forrest/comment-page-1/#comment-41763 Sachin Gopal Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:03:25 +0000 http://www.techspot.com/staff/?p=44#comment-41763 I thought linksys would burn up on anything more than 120mW.

]]> By: Per Hansson http://www.techspot.com/blog/44/finally-broadband-in-the-forrest/comment-page-1/#comment-484 Per Hansson Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:30:44 +0000 http://www.techspot.com/staff/?p=44#comment-484 Yea, I climbed the tree, the smaller stuff I had in a backpack. The 60cm Dish I simply lifted from branch to branch on the tree… The hard ting was the mount for the mast, it is made of wood and weights about 10kg… Try to lift that above your head with only one hand for 20 meters :) (did not work to lift it with a rope because it would just get stuck on the way up…)

I had two setups like this, one on each side, inside the Electrical box seen on the picture I had a Linksys WRT54GS running the Sveasoft third party firmware. I had to bump the TX power to 150mW on my side and 200mW on the other to get the best results (which is illegal in Sweden BTW, max is 100mW… though I did not hear the animals in the forrest complain) :D

To get the signal from the trees down to the houses I used another pair of WRT54GS machines plus a Directional Yagi antenna, one in the tree and one on the house, aimed at each other…

I would have written an article of this if I had actually had any use of it… As it is the only transfer I did on the link was with a TCP test tool, called epi_ttcp I got about 2MB/sec wind did not affect it much at all, strangley enough… The dishes where also never aimed properly, I just set them up in the direction I thought was ok… Mind you it was a none line of sight link so I guess I made a good guess :D

]]> By: PanicX http://www.techspot.com/blog/44/finally-broadband-in-the-forrest/comment-page-1/#comment-483 PanicX Thu, 29 Dec 2005 22:52:54 +0000 http://www.techspot.com/staff/?p=44#comment-483 You actually climbed up these trees, equipment in tow? You need to write an article about this. What kind of equipment did you use? How many repeaters did you setup and how are they powered?

Thats really a huge project, kudos on getting it up and running.

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