The RDPE Project Board met yesterday to review progress with the project. The Project Board is chaired by GAB director Barbara Allen who was joined by Graham Parkin, Senior User member, Guy Jarvis, director of NextGenUs and Senior Supplier member, and Miles Mandelson, Project Manager. Good progress with the project so far was recorded.
After the meeting was concluded Guy, Miles and Ben Hadler met to discuss and document the network design in detail. It was decided that the next day (Friday) two additional wireless nodes would be installed at Holly Bank House and at Great Kettle Barn. Guy had arranged for Mike Sayer, aerial installer from Kirby Stephen, to join us in the morning to assist with the installation. Also Ben had undertaken to install a NanoStation on his roof to act as the first proper client installation.
Later in the evening Guy set about configuring the eight Nanos required for the two nodes. Each installation comprises one Nano configured as a wireless station to connect to the next node (in these cases the village hall) and three Nanos configured as wireless access points to which client Nanos will connect. The four Nanos are each powered over its Ethernet cable and connected together via a five-port Ethernet switch.
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