[Discuss] Funkfeuer in Chinko, Central African Republic

[L. Aaron Kaplan]

Hi Raffael,


On Jan 9, 2015, at 2:07 PM, raffael hickisch <(spam-protected)> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I'm working at Chinko nature reserve in the east of the Central
> African Republic.
> 
> We will soon get a VSAT link at our HQ, and I am wondering about the
> cheapest and most reliable way to having WIFI in every corner of the
> airstrip. https://goo.gl/maps/0rLp1
> 
nice :)

So, since it is an airstrip, I assume you don't have any trees in the way between any two points.
Trees are not good for Wi-Fi signal propagation.


> So we have been looking at a solution like mesh potato (which is
> however too expensive. I think Funkfeuer can be the solution.
> 
Well, Funkfeuer is a couple of networks. We use standard wi-fi routers
which run openwrt (www.openwrt.org) and OLSR  (www.olsr.org) as meshing protocol.
That's pretty much it (in its core). You can make that as cheap as a couple of tens of Euros per node.
However, your requirements might depend on environmental conditions (for example, does the box need to survive blasting heat or icy colds or torrents of rains if they are outdoors). 


> Before going ahead with this though, I have a couple of questions (I
> am not an IT specialist, so sorry for the simple words I use)
> 
> * Is there a way to constrain the users of the WIFI (we do not want to
> have our VSAT link blocked with our staff trying to watch youtube, or
> android updates of our staffs smart phones, etc.)

Yes, it's called traffic shaping.

> 
> * Do you have any recommendations, about lightweight and relatively
> cheap solar driven sets (ie. a small panel, an accupack, and a router)
> - that can work with 5 hours of sun/day? Or any other idea how we
> could work around the fact that only one corner of the airport has a
> generator running?

Others on this list can answer this question better than me.

> 
> Thanks a lot for you ideas.
> 
You are welcome :)


Best,
a.

> Best,
> 
> raffael
> 
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