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====== June 21, 2007 ====== Mayssan emailed Michael & Gabe to say that the wifi has been shaky/intermittent. I (Gabe) went in this morning to check it out... - They moved the router and wimax modem (which were in the skate room) to the kitchen next to the changeroom. (Because the signal was weak, apparently?) So they had to unplug the cable which runs to the outdoor enclosure. This came as a big surprise to me -- it means that we have no outdoor coverage at the park. I don't know when it happened, but it seems like it was a couple of months ago. - The wifi card in Mayssan's computer seems to flake out a lot... I was able to connect fine with my laptop. Apparently she's gone through several cards and USB dongles on her laptop, and they're on their fourth USB dongle on the desktop -- they seem to flake out after a month. They say they try a different brand and model every time. - The wifi signal does completely die when they use their cordless phone. They now know this. Solutions that we came up with: - Mayssan should try a new wifi card. Gabe will try to remember to bring her a new one next time. - In the interest of eliminating any other potential wifi-related service outages, we want to establish a wired connection between the computer and the wimax modem. - We need to get the outdoor router back online. The best way to do this seems like it might be by running a new Ethernet cable from the skate room (where there's already a wire which runs to the outdoor enclosure) to the kitchen. Looking at the ceiling, there's room to run a cable along some conduit. It'll go from the skate room, through the women's washroom, across the main rinkhouse hallway, and into the kitchen. The wimax modem and primary router will then be placed on top of the highest cupboard. A second cable will then be run from the router to the computer. (There are other cables running to the computer, they're simply taped down along the ground. This should be fine.) Gabe is planning to go on Tuesday (26th) morning at around 9:15am to install the two cables: a 100' one for the long run, and a ~50' one for the short run. ====== 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.
