Qcode working at Austwick

[Nick halln@clannet.co.uk]

Hi Nick,

Yes the 600mv cards are Ubiquiti Extreme range 5 .
If you set the country code to 48 you get the full 600mv.
Once LW releases the code with the new MadWiFi drivers they will work
much better and maybe we can use lower powered radios then as the new
code will see signals down to -100
and mesh at a better figure then -74 ish

Yes you can post this to the groups . I thought I had when I sent the
email to you. I hit the wrong link by mistake . lack of use of the
groups :-)


I will build a node and let you know how I go on

thanks


steve

From: Nick Hall [mailto:ha...@clannet.co.uk]
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 6:08 PM
To: Steven Ward
Cc: Dean A. Welbourn
Subject: Qorvus Qcode

Hi,

Thanks for all those experiences,very interesting indeed.

We would like to come and see you some time.

I presume the 600mw 11a card is the Ubiquiti card?
Does 'pro' allow you to exploit this card's full potential?
Would you let me send our exchange to the MeshAP google group?

How do you find splashd performance on Qcode as this is the other
major weakness of the old LW code that is supposedly fixed in qcode.

Thank you for the offer of help and any suggestions we would welcome
to Meshmon.This is written in VB and runs on a winoze box(booo!) It
basically pings all nodes to establish who is there and emails you if
it looses one Secondly we have given it a 'bot' that can make it way
to a meshbox who has lost its backhaul dd-wrt (or whatever) and change
it immediately to a repeater so as to utilize its other meshlinks.
The backhaul failover on LW is so slow as to be pretty useless and
since on a mixed network all meshboxes are gateways this was our fix.

Next comes radius and accounting and my colleague Dean Welbourn is a
very active programmer in all sorts!

You may be following the developments at OpenMesh
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/opensourcemesh?hl=en
We think this much depends on someone adapting robin to run on X86 and
whether the open mesh AAA dashboard server becomes opensource.

We have cooperated with Tom and Helen at SWBB who I believe you know
and they are now deploying dd-wrt using a locustworld box at the
gateway or network edges for authetication and doing lots of
interesting things with 'shared band' Tom is a huge fund of
experiences and as willing to share as ourselves

The main plus of dd-wrt is the cost at £20+vat per node. Reflashing is
very simple see http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Installation or
see attached instructions. I use the second method as its a no
brainer!!

Negatives we have found is the lack ACK timing for our long links
although we are currently getting better performance with a pair of dd-
wrt's than a pair of 11b meshboxes.

Hope this is of interest.

best regards,

nick hall





----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Ward" <steve...@austwick.org>
To: "Nick Hall" <ha...@clannet.co.uk>
Sent: Saturday, February 2, 2008 4:16:04 PM (GMT) Europe/London
Subject: RE: Qorvus Qcode

Hi Nick
I am testing the Qcode 3.25 and I have a beta copy of the new V4 with
the new MadWifi drivers and support for the AILX boards.( still a few
bugs in it so cant use it live yet)
I am using the Qnodes in a mixed network with LocustWorld.

Also testing and running live nodes with 5.8 GHz backhaul using Indoor
Mini ITX with 600mv radio 6 mts HD400 and 20db and 26db Pannels using
LocustWorld pro.

I found the Mini ITX options by accident so I stuck the CF into a Mini
ITX twin radio box and it worked great.

I would like to help with your project but my programming knowledge is
with 4GL's database stuff and only used AIX UNIX to run the mainframe.

I would like to test the dd-wrt's at some point but as yet I don't
know where to start. If you point me in the right direction I will
give it a go'


Steve



From: Nick Hall [mailto:ha...@clannet.co.uk]
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 8:13 PM
To: dmg
Subject: Re: Qorvus Qcode

Thanks Steven,

I was hoping Qurvos might have enlightened us but they seemed
reluctant to help so we were forced to abandon to save time and move
on. We have settled on developing on the dd-wrt platform and we are
impressed with the performance on broadcom radios. We still have a
very long way to go especially with long links. We really d'ont think
meshing should be a necessity as, it is frequently more trouble than
it is worth, now we are used to building wireless networks. Secondly
expecting a single radio to both handle backhaul and user access is
greatly limiting bandwidth.

What are you working on?

We are moving to deploy mixed networks of ddwrt and meshboxs for
authentication, till a 'complete solution' evolves. We have developed
some simple network monitoring software for monitoring and failover in
the shape of Meshmon.

We would like to add fuller accounting data from the dd-wrt's to
Meshmon.

Regards,

Nick

----- Original Message -----
From: "dmg" <steve...@austwick.org>
To: "Nick ha...@clannet.co.uk" <hallc...@googlemail.com>
Sent: Friday, February 1, 2008 6:23:47 PM (GMT) Europe/London
Subject: Re: Qorvus Qcode

Hi Nick
I have had Qcode 3.35 running on Mini ITX ok
What you have to do is chose the kernel you want to use at boot up so
you need a keybord and moniter plugged in at boot up. there is 4 Mini
ITX options and one WRAP.
If you are using a WRAP then use a nul modem cable and hyper Terminal
38400 bits/sec . 8 data . Parity is none. stops bits is 1 . Frow
control is None.

Hit space bar to get the options when you see themessage " hit a key
to continue"



On Oct 25 2007, 9:48 am, "Nick ha...@clannet.co.uk"
<hallclan...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have tried very hard to get qcode to run on a variety of platforms
> including Mini ITX and compaq's with a variety of cards Atheros 2315
> chipset, CM9, prism MA311 but never achieved a working machine. I
> think as they have developed their code solely on the PC engines WRAP
> platform in recent years and is now become incompatible. They seemed
> unwilling to persevere to fix it so we have abandoned that
> avenue....... now...where's that Buffalo!??
>
> Nick


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