Personal Telco Monthly Meeting for Febuary 23rd 2005

When and Where

Urban Grind Coffee 2214 NE Oregon St. (take 22nd Ave. 2 blocks North of Sandy Blvd.)

Wednesday, Febuary 23rd 2005. 6:00pm - 9:00pm

Agenda

• 6:00PM - Introduction to Personal Telco for newcomers.
• 6:30PM - New Nodes and other announcements.
• 7:00PM - Business followed directly by informal meet and greet.

Audio

• http://www.personaltelco.net/~tom/podcast/rss.xml

• http://www.personaltelco.net/~tom/podcast/PTPFeb232005.mp3

Agenda Items

• New Node Announcements

  • DarrinEden announces Foxfire Teas - NE Fremont and 46th. He describes the area and the quick 2 hour install. He describes the kids playing area and the fireplace. Says to check the area out.

    • http://wiki.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/Node673

  • AaronBaer talks about completing Node674 on NE Rodney and Skidmore using a Metrix Mark I and a 9dBi Omni. Great coverage from this setup.

    • http://wiki.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/Node674

  • Aaron also talks about Veganopolis and a crowded spectrum on 2.4Ghz in the area. TomHiggins and AaronBaer used a WRT54G and loaded openwrt to provide coverage within the whole space. Aaron says the owners encourage people to come and hang out.

    • http://wiki.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/Node676

  • Irving and Brandon talk about flashing ewrt onto a Linksys wrt54g and installing it in bar15. We talked about essid use and the need for roaming integration. ewrt 0.3 beta-1 is out! applause
  • Aaron Talks about Madrona Hill on NE Ainsworth and Greeley. He talks about using a client bridge to the owners house for the internet connection.

    • http://wiki.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/Node675

  • RobertPetersen talks about using 5 WDS capable AP's and bridging the whole network @ Node625 WestoverTowers. Considers which nodes to use as bridges. Options are presented including Fusium, Node495, and Irving Park.

    • http://overlook.personaltelco.net/cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi

• Other Announcements

  • DarrinEden reminds everyone that Personal Telco University is in session.

  • Mack, owner of UrbanGrind coffee and TomHiggins agree to work on a NodeOwnersWorkshop.

• Hack Nights

  • Darrin talks about the difference between the monthly and weekly meetings TomHiggins hosts a WeeklyMeeting at Node236 which offers a hands on approach to developing ideas and resolving current software and hardware issues.

• SSID Consistency
  • All Personal Telco Project nodes require a consistent name of "www.personaltelco.net". This is for the purpose of roaming between access points.

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