The work begins

After a very busy time at Rory Stewart's Broadband Conference at Rheged, Guy and Simon from NextGenUs arrived in the village at 10.30am yesterday (Sunday) to install the first new wireless node.  This consisted of a 10ft aluminium scaffolding pole mounted on the gable end of the Village Hall alongside the existing mesh-box.  On the pole were four Ubiquiti NanoStation wireless devices positioned at 90 degree intervals and connected back to the router in the Village Hall with Cat5 Ethernet cable.  After configuration and testing, all four were got working.

Simon fixes the bracket for the pole

The next stage is to use a fifth NanoStation  to check where good wireless connections can be made back to the Village Hall node.

Guy configures the NanoStations