What about try shot connection Palava(a hill close to the Mikulov town)-? maybee retranslation-Wienna. The connection could be made in 5.47GHz if it's alredy available in Austria .
OT: Staatz-Hill (Castle Staatz) is close to the Laa an der Thaya town.There should be a nice Aquapark,right?What about morning
wi-fi test and afternoon swiming there?
i would love to see this working. so what day are you plaing to do that?
about reconstructing the monarchy.. i hope that was a joke, if not, at least i hope lets all speak czech then (hehe, who is organizing the czech language workshop? ;-)
concerining peering: i think kurtac has an idea already on how to make a cross border link.
it was somewhere else in a thread on the forum. sorry i dont have the link now.
about equipment: i will post the list hopefully with fotos ASAP, basically we have:
NS300 DSLAM
5 19" boxes with 12 Modems (57 Modems in the DSLAMS
2 19" DSLAM boxes empty
+ 11x power supplies
Mini DSLAM mit 4 Ports: Nexspeed NR 104 S
Nexpeed NR 104S: 17 pcs
HP Procurve Switch 4000N - with 5 cards 10/100
NM200 Nexpeed Modem: Original packaging 73 pcs
Proteon RBX 200 4 pcs
Campus HRS Pairgain Modems: 35 pcs
(a few interface cards are missing)
Zyxel Prestige 600: 48 pieces
Zyxel 782 T700er Serie - 10 pcs
Cisco 2500er - 5 pcs
HP Procurve 2524 - 2 pieces - Manageable
HP Procurve HPJ3177A -
Bay Networks - 350-24T Switch - 3 pcs
Telindus - Crocus SDSL - 9 pcs
DSLpipe Ascend DSL-S-E - 2 pcs
Digital Link DL6282 - 13 pcs
Pairgain Megabit Modem 768i Plus - 33 pcs
Pairgain Megabit Modem
Pairgain Megabit 300 S - ca 11 pieces
Cisco 1700er - 1 piece
Proteon Globetrotter 60 GT 60 - 5 pcs.
CAT5 Kabel - 1500m
Cisco 1000 - 2 pcs.
Nexcomm Modems 100 - 9 pcs.
SDSL Bridge 2mbit - 20 pcs. - some broken
8 Patchpanels
Cisco cable
6 APC USV
some of this stuff we will probably keep for ourselves (a few modems and switches i guess).
But it is not decided yet.
concerning the VPN: this is just one possibility to connect, depends on the price for bandwidht etc. but it seems to be an easy way.
and i guess we will need some NAT (snat?) to connect the nets.
As said we still have some official IP ranges free if necessary but the disadvantag would be
that all routing will have to go thru our border router. We do not have AS status yet :(
Only PI space ip addresses. So I guess this is not such a good option. SNAT seems better
for me.
About meshrouting: it is certainly practical for small nets. Just be sure that you do not have
IP address collisions and that no-one ever announces 0.0.0.0/0 unintentionally. Otherwise it
works find. And it is mobile IP with static addresses
Maybe a workshop or something like that can be practical?
About the packet radio link: some people here said that it will not work because the distance is
to far. We are not allowed to boost power. Otherwise the local equivalent of the FCC will
come for a raid / busting and we risk to get a heavy fine ("straf")
Any ideas on that?
As far as I can see the most practical way seems to be a wireless link across the border
from one border town to the other.
Any experience with sat dishes as antennas?