CoffsWiFi.net

In case you are wondering where the wifidog login page has gone for your node...

I am afraid there is no good news at the moment. Some funky ISP maintenance has knocked the Auth server offline and Paul is away for a couple of weeks. In the meantime I have taken my network off the Coffswifi network so Sawtell Beach is now back up and running.
Everyone else, I suggest you take a walk on the beach and enjoy the sunshine before it starts to rain again!

C'est la vie

Yes you heard it right. Someone at 8pm today (16/06/08) stole the ADSL modem out of the riser at Creek Tower. This brought the whole network down for 4 hours.

The modem was ripped out damaging cables. We had a spare but it is old and it took a couple of hours to configure. Will keep you posted...as we belive the people who took the modem live in the building.

There has been times when access points drop off the network for many hours then reconnect without any intervention. We have found out that it is a DNS problem with the pointer to wifidog.coffswifi.net server. It has a dynamic address and used no-ip.com. So every time a new address was allocated some access points would drop off until their providers DSN servers where updated. It now has been fix - we have a static ip now so there should be less dropouts.

This website was down for a day(or so) due to a DNS problem. It happened when the DNS dropped the entry coffswifi.net. The entry for www.coffswifi.net was pointing to coffswifi.net. Still don't know why it has droped the entry but we have fixed the problem (not solved though)

PS we are going to lay some new cables down at the Jetty Village Shopping Centre so we hope to have the access point up and running in the near future.

Yes that right, thanx to Ruben we now have an access point in sawtell. It's located at the Beach Haven apartments. You can get a better idea of the location through the hotspot map.

Ruben has enabled the shout box so if you have something to say then type it in at the logon portal then click SHOUT. Warning it will be published on every access point on the network.

We would like to thank Ruben for his contributions.

Many are finding the Jetty Village access point spends more time off line than on. There are several factors that contribute to this issue. The first is the ISP that provides Internet access to this hotspot is not reliable. It’s up and down like a yoyo. This is compounded by the lack off access to the ISP technology as it resides on private premises, which isn't always open for our access. When there is an opportunity to gain access, we might not have the time to run down and reboot.

The whole network went down some time on Friday the 18th. The problem was fixed with a router reboot. We are still not sure why but stuff happens. Also the access point at creek town had a problem with the firewall rules - it was letting everything through without authentication. All is fixed now.