Dunedin Wireless Networking Group

A group of people in Dunedin, Aotearoa/New Zealand are keen on getting a community wireless networking project going. We are planning to start with links in and around NEV and the city. We encourage people in Dunedin who are interested to subscribe to our mailing list, see below.

News

First Meting

We had our first meeting on 23 Jan 2002, at Shooters Bar, with 6 people in attendance. For details of what we discussed see DunWirelessMeetings Um, like what?

Next Meting

JasonMoodie wrote : BR When is the next meeting, How many people are interested?????????

Resources

Mailing list

To subscribe to the mailing list send a blank email to mailto:dunwireless-subscribe@netfree.co.nz BR

Projects

Please add your name if you have an interest in the following areas. Discussion about these issues is probably best directed to the list.

Mapping system for Dunedin nodes

DrewWhittle, Mike and IdeaHamster are interested in this.BR Mike is collating a list of people's addresses and will help you find your coordinates so you can be put on the map. Drew is investigating a mapping system we can use.BR JasonMoodie wrote:BR Here is an interesting site for mapping.BR http://www.linz.govt.nz/services/topo-hydro/pages/topo/aerialandorthophotos/orthophotos/I44_J44.html[[BR]] IdeaHamster wrote:BR Here http://nocat.net/nocatrfc.txt is the key to authenticating people onto the network and authenticating people who supply connections out to the internet or other networks.

IP Address Assignment

JasonMoodie believes that this would be a good start. Any ideas/comments?BR Currently there is no globally agreed mechanism to assign addresses within the RFC 1918 space amongst the different wireless groups.

The best approximation that currently exists is the following URL: http://www.freenetworks.org/moin/index.cgi/NetworkAddressAllocations which lists the addresses used by those groups who have volunteered this information.

It is recommended that any new group which is interested in having a unique set of IP addresses, register its usage at this location. There is no agreed standard as to the number of addresses that should be assigned to a group, but it is recommended that the requested allocations be conservative, as it is always possible to request another block at a later stage.

Setting up an Incorporated Society

DrewWhittle, AlexKing and Selwyn are intersted in thisBR We are looking at incorporating. Drew has a set of rules which we will use as a starting point.

Getting Schools involved in the network

AlexKing, BrettShand and JasonMoodie are interested in this.BR Schools can benefit from community networking in the same way as individuals and other organisations can. They can improve their internet browsing experience by sharing web caches and experiment with broadband applications between schools (most schools in Dunedin are still using modem dialup links for their internet access). Each school we can get running is a node in our network which helps our coverage, and we are providing a community benefit by helping the schools.

Quake Server

JasonMoodie is interested in this.BR Just an Idea but people need something to do or use on the network that is going to be set up. No one is going to spend lots of time and money on a project just to share the odd file. They would if there were 200 existing nodes. Why not try to set up a games server. Anyone palyed QIII over JetStream. You get addicted to it because of the raw speed of the connection and the intelligent game play.

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