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====== Dufferin Grove Park hotspot setup ====== ====== February 18, 2007 ====== Gabe removed the equipment from Bruce's house today. ====== February 10, 2007 ====== MAJOR UPDATE: the dsl line (like the one at Dundas Square, coincidentally or not) doesn't seem to want to stay up for more than a few hours. We discussed it with park staff, and decided to order the wimax service early. Michael and Gabe went to the park today to set it up. The wimax modem is in the skate room, connected to the router labelled 36 (but with the wifidog gw_id of 31). We reconfigured that router from "repeater mode" to "normal wifidog mode". We then did the opposite with the WT router in the exterior box: converting it from a wifidog node to a "repeater node". No changes to wiring were required. Gabe disabled the SSID broadcast on the south router, to avoid confusion. He also marked the node 'temporarily closed' on the auth server. ====== January 30, 2007 ====== Wifidog reports both routers going down at about 6:30am. The tentative plan is to switch to wimax in April/May 2007, locating the modem at the rinkhouse. The friends of DGP will be able to cover the cost, using money earned from their snack bar. ====== January 29, 2007 ====== South router still down, and on the weekend (26th or 27th?) the north router went down. Patrick, Dave and Gabe went to the park to check it out. Connecting to the rinkhouse router, we could ping everything within the park (except the south WT router -- packets don't route that way)... which means the mesh is up, and either it's a routing problem with the south Nomad router, or a problem with the DSL modem or line. We walked over to Bruce's, and were lucky to find him home. He let us in. The WT router wasn't sending out beacons. Gabe plugged his laptop into the dsl modem, and it seemed to be working ok. We powercycled the modem and the routers, plugged it all back in, and everything came right back up. No explanation for what was wrong before. (Gabe's only theory: the DSL modem crapped out and needed a reboot. On Jan 12th when Bruce powercycled, he did the routers only, not the modem. This doesn't explain, though, why the south WT modem wasn't sending out beacons.) We left the park happy. ====== January 12, 2007 ====== Bruce Whitaker powercycled the routers at his house. The north router came back online, giving park staff internet access, but the south end is still offline. The mesh link between the two ends is functioning. Access to Bruce's is necessary to figure out why our router there isn't working. ====== January 7, 2007 ====== Router 31 was reported as down in wifidog for most of the first week of 2007; Michael P investigated on Friday night, and reported this: > The antenna on the external rinkhouse routers had been knocked out of position and was, presummably, not seeing the south end for its internet feed. A broom handle and power cycle of the routers (plus the one in room 36) helped set it straight. > > Oddly, south is reported being down right now though the rinkhouse looks fine. Indeed, router 30 is reported as down in wifidog, and Gabe couldn't reach it via openvpn -- seems like it'll need a powercycle. ====== installed spring 2006 ====== Three routers: - 30: on private home at south end of the park, connected to DSL line - 31: on the rinkhouse - x: inside the rinkhouse (wifidog not installed), wired connection to router 31, ip address 192.168.1.10 DSL and cross-park "mesh" provided by Wireless Nomad. DSL modem owned by WT. Paid up until early/mid-May 2007.
