The long term aim is to create a wireless meshed network across Coffs Harbour and surrounding areas using the 802.11 standard, enabling the community to freely share resources and access to other networks (public and private).

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No More Jetty Access Point

Posted June 19th, 2009 by Paul Templeton
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The Jetty access point will be turned off for now. It has been abused to many times and the people providing band width have had enough. This is a side effect of having an open network. There are always some people who think free means exploit. In the end it affects us all.

The access point at creek tower will also be turned of in the next few weeks as it hardly gets used and is costing $70 per month.

Google and the Radio Spectrum Inventory Act

Posted May 11th, 2009 by Paul Templeton
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Google is on the war path to free the radio spectrum in America. As they state 'airwaves belong to the American public, not to any corporation or other entity'.

For the full story - http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2009/05/taking-stock-of-nations-a...

If they make any headway then we sould do the same here in Australia. The community has lost all access to this common.That is every thing up to 420THz.

 

X-Net

Posted April 8th, 2009 by ruben

Not sure if anyone has read Cory Doctorow's Little Brother.
It is a light quick free read or buy the audio book. The story revolves around a bunch of kids living under a repressive government regime. It is a sort of alternate present day. Much of it is so very BoingBoing Cory but if you don't mind that it is still a fun read with plenty of ideas to play around with. One of which is the X-Net. I can't be stuffed going into a lot of detail here, read the book if you are intersted.

The X-Net
The fictional X-net is a network owned by the community not corporations or government. The X-net could be real. I think it already is but it is a bit different. There are already loose collections of informal networks scattered across Australia. People are just not pissed off enough with whats on offer to get serious about it. The KRudd Government just announced a 43 billion dollar fibre-to-the-premise National Broadband Network. Sounds great hey? So where does that leave the cleanfeed??

Getting to the point...
Oi! Paul lets meet up and build these auth servers then Coffswifi can be a bit more robust. Once that is done we can start worrying about our underground uncensored grass roots network!!!

Flooding

Posted April 1st, 2009 by Paul Templeton
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The whole network is down due to power outage at creek tower. It was flooded yesterday and power is out for some time.

Sit back, relax and have a cuppa.

Meeting

Posted March 28th, 2009 by Paul Templeton
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Come one come all. Meeting tommorow - 1PM at the Coffs SLSC.

Where is do you say - Down at the Park Beach park behind the Councils caravan pack. If in dought just Google it.

 See you there...Bring your notebook and wifi gear if you want. We will be descussing the future of wifi in Coffs and where do we go from here.

Everything is Hunky-Dory

Posted March 25th, 2009 by ruben
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Looking back through the posts it seems that every other one is all about a bit of gear breaking or network outages. So, just to let you all know, things ain't all bad. If you read the comments from the previous post you'll see that the last outage was caused by Country Energy being a little over zealous with the off switch. Anyhow that is all sorted now so we shall move along and enjoy the sizzling of wifi radiation around our ears. 

You'd never guess I was killing time whilst waiting for a virus scan on a broken workstation would you....

 Paul should be adding a post later to let you all know about a meeting over in the Coffs SLSC at 1pm this Sunday, oh hang on I just told you. Well er maybe Paul will make it sound more official.

Feel free to delete this rambling post. I need to start fixing some broken sectors....

Not just down, gone!

Posted March 24th, 2009 by ruben
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nananananananananananaThe Coffswifi auth server which manages all the logins for the wireless hotspots around town has mysteriously disappeared. I have tried to contact Paul but he appears to have been kidnapped by aliens... hmm - I sense a conspiracy. Until he gets returned to this planet/dimension coffswifi is, effectively dead... or is it? 

I stayed up last night and rebuilt my own authentication server at http://home.tregeagle.com/wd/
It should be working but I am missing something because the wifidog gateway is not talking to it. I'll have another go at it tonight and hopefully will have a working replacement up and running for all to use.
I think I need to open up a port but couldn't see anything obvious in the wifidog.conf file. Any geniuses who'd like to offer their opinions or expertise please do so in the comments.

Here's to my bleeding eyeballs.

Ruben

:~|

 

Sawtell Beach Haven - gets a usage meter

Posted February 5th, 2009 by ruben
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Usage GraphI just stuck Cafuego's excellent Internode usage meter online for Sawtell Beach Haven Apartments.

 Now the lucky tenants can keep an eye on their usage, or more likely get a sinking feeling as the meagre bandwidth dribbles into their neighbours hard-drives.

Ah well such is life. Need I suggest... share folks.

 

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