• WeeklyMeeting20230405

Location: Jitsi
Date and Time: Wednesday, April 5, 2023, 5:30pm-8:00pm
Scribe: You
Roll Call: RussellSenior,MatthewKlug,JasonBergstrom,TedBrunner

Agenda

• Pick location for next weekly
• Node notes:

  • NodeMississippi -- Russell finally got the door codes and got access to Mississippi Commons. Russell did a reconnaissance on Monday evening, then came back with Ted on Tuesday early afternoon.

    • 16-port 10/100 switch that interconnected the Rocket and Unifi AC Mesh on the roof of the building was unplugged (probably since September);
    • Observed some intermittent operation of the switch ports, resulting in about 30% packet loss between the devices even after plugged back in;
    • On Tuesday, Russell and Ted plugged in a new power supply, replacing the 12V 1.2A linear power supply that came with the Netgear switch;
    • Continued to observe some flakiness with the Rocket's ethernet cable, replaced it with a 6-foot, slightly too short slimrun cable;
    • Also installed a gigabit switch on top of the 16-port switch, and plugged both of our devices into it, with a patch cable (another shorter slimrun) to the old switch;
    • None of the other ports in the 16-port switch had a link, implying no one in the building is using the free internet that is now available;
    • Noticed that the port associated with the Rocket was amber, indicating a 100Mbps link speed, confirmed later that the Rocket's ethernet is limited to 100Mbps;
    • Locked the closet on the way out;

    • Walked down to NodeFreshPot and diagnosed the Alix there:

      • bad power supply, replaced
    • Drew a diagram for Ted of the network topology;
    • Noticed that various links were flakey, notice that some devices were missing:
      • NW Nano Loco on the Ballroom Building was un-pingable

      • NW NanoLoco was not visible on the mast

      • SE NanaLoco was not visible on the mast

      • NodeEd is still offline, maybe we can replace the gear this summer?

    • Recruited Aaron to fly a drone over the Ballroom roof sometime soon to investigate the disposition of our NanoLoco's, Russell suspects the many years of UV might have broken the zipties holding them on the masts, maybe an opportunity to finally replace them.

• We expect to hear news on our ARPA Grant Applications later this week, possibly Thursday or Friday.

• Your Item Here

Notes

• DonPark forwarded location with multiple LTE antennas on the roof off Powell

• CenturyLink "price for life" is said to be going up $10/mo

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