I hereby officially declare duck hunting season over. >From now on, box hunting season is in effect!
We should have a router-enclosure contest... Amir On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 08:59:35PM +0300, Daniel wrote: > instead of getting poor and old while waiting for Ministry of Communication or > Institute of Standards to approve the coolest outdoor gear we can imagine, why > not use recycled boxes and just cable-tie them on existing poles: > > https://mediagoblin.telavivmakers.org/u/daniel/gallery/ > > this is a very cheap router in a reclaimed styrofoam box. gal found it in the > local clinics garbage, it was probably used to store meds before, so it was > very clean and didn't even smell bad :) > to supply power to the installation on the roof, > very-poor-mans-power-over-ethernet is used. this means, we populated only the > 4 pins needed for 100MBit/s ethernet into the modular western-8 plug and so we > were left with 4 additional wires. those two pairs are now used to supply 9V > DC to the router using it's original power-supply and a similar hack in > ground-station... > > > this means the total-cost-of-ownership of an ARIG node is down to ILS 95 for > this TL-WR740N router plus some meters of ethernet cable, some cable ties, > access to a ethernet-crimping tool plus plugs and a bit of good will. > > yet, given direct-line-of-sight (in radio terms, mind the Fresnel Zone [1]) > this is sufficient for quite fast links on several kilometers! impressive, if > you ask me :) > > > have fun! > > > > daniel > > > > [1]: > http://www.proxim.com/products/knowledge-center/calculations/calculations-fresnel-clearance-zone _______________________________________________ arig-discuss mailing list arig-discuss@lists.subsignal.org https://lists.subsignal.org/mailman/listinfo/arig-discuss
