Difference between revisions of "WLRH Internet Connection Project"

Revision as of 14:03, 3 May 2018

Overview

Due to funding and historical reasons, it has proven impossible or at least impractical for WLRH to gain access to a high-throughput Internet connection, despite UAH being incredibly nearby, and also being ready and willing to offer the connection itself. The only missing piece is the infrastructural build-out between the two. Since Makers Local has some expertise in point-to-point wireless (and is developing more as we speak), I figured we could help a fellow not-for-profit organization out, and come up with a solution to that problem.

Steps

1. Gain approval from UAH to provide network services from their location for this purpose.
   • Done as of 23 Mar 2018
2. Meet with the General Manager to make the offer of providing this service, on behalf of Makers Local.
   • Meeting has been scheduled as of 13 Apr 2018
3. Decide on a location for the "receiver" equipment.
4. Decide on a location for the "transmitter" equipment.
   • Technically they are both receivers and transmitters, but you get what I mean.
5. Decide on appropriate equipment based on those locations.
6. Buy and donate the equipment.
7. Install the equipment.
8. Set up the equipment.
9.  ???
10. Non-profit

Details

Make the offer

It should be clear that the support for the link will come from a Makers Local point of contact, and the rest will be best-effort. It may be worth covering what the needs are, and if non-critical services can use this link while critical services use the existing one. Maybe some sort of failover scheme.