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Revision as of 14:10, 3 May 2018
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[hide]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
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Gain approval from UAH to provide network services from their location for this purpose.- Done as of 23 Mar 2018
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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
- Done as of 17 Apr 2018
- Decide on a location for the "receiver" equipment.
- The temporary location will be on the tower, but closer to the base.
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Decide on a location for the "transmitter" equipment.- Approval gained from Optics Building staff to mount radio equipment on the building, approx 23 Apr 2018.
- Support structure installation completed on the south side of the Optics Building telescope riser area approx 30 Apr 2018.
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Decide on appropriate equipment based on those locations.- 5GHz will work due to the readily available line of sight to this location. A backup link may need to be 2.4GHz, but I doubt it.
- Proof of concept equipment was purchased: MikroTik RouterBoard SXTsq 5 ac
- UAH-side equipment installation for proof of concept completed on 1 May 2018.
- Buy and donate the equipment.
- Pending proof of concept completion.
- Install the equipment.
- Set up the equipment.
- ???
- 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.
