[Mesh] Introduction

[Steve Berl]

I think I just added it, but it isn't showing on the map. Is there some
moderator step or something?

-steve


On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Miguel Vargas <unroar at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> Could you mark your house on http://meshmap.sudoroom.org/ as a potential
> node site?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Steve Berl <steveberl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> As long as we are doing introductions, I'm Steve Berl. I'm kind of new to
>> wireless and mesh stuff, but I do have a lot of IP network experience,
>> having worked at Cisco for 16 years. I sort of specialized there in ways to
>> make deployment, configuration, and management easy and cheap.
>>
>> I'm also getting into the RF side of things, doing a bit of amateur radio
>> astronomy with RTL-SDR, and turns out I really like building antennas of
>> various kinds, so if we want to whip up some high gain yagis or cantennas,
>> I'm up for it.
>>
>> I also live in Piedmont partway up the hill, and from my roof I have have
>> line of site to all of Lake Merritt and a chunk of downtown Oakland,
>> Emeryville, and into Berkeley. The roof has easy access, and it is easy to
>> drop cables down from there into my basement/machineroom, so for testing
>> those long point to point links...
>>
>>
>> -steve
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I'm Adrian. I'm a wifi hacker. I worked at Qualcomm Atheros for 18
>>> months on various open and closed source wifi things. I'm also the
>>> FreeBSD wireless developer.
>>>
>>> My main focus is FreeBSD but I know a bunch of stuff about openwrt and
>>> the Linux wireless stack and Atheros drivers.
>>>
>>> Right now I'm working on FreeBSD support for the latest Atheros chips
>>> and SoCs (the AR933x and AR934x stuff), as well as finishing off the
>>> 11n support for TDMA and 802.11s mesh.
>>>
>>> I came along to the mesh meetup because being a developer of this
>>> stuff in a vacuum is a bit silly. I've been looking for local groups
>>> who are interested in wifi and want to do strange things with it. This
>>> group seems to be that way inclined. :-) I'm also looking for
>>> victims^Whelpers to test out the long-distance side of this TDMA
>>> support in FreeBSD. It's supposed to work up to dozens of miles, but I
>>> just don't have access to places to mount equipment to test. I'm
>>> hoping that I can find some people here who are willing to help me
>>> with this. I can provide the wireless hardware; all I need here is an
>>> internet hookup and places to mount stuff.
>>>
>>> I'm happy to help out any way I can.
>>>
>>> If you're all interested, I can do some talks on how this stuff works
>>> and how long distance links work/don't work.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>> -adrian
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>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> -steve
>>
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-steve
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