Internet Archive Forums: SFLan

Any nodes in the Excelsior district?

I cannot access the SFLan map; are there any nodes in the Excelsior? Mt. San Bruno is not accessible to me. I want to build a node (or are there any unused ones available?) for my neighborhood. And...

Posted by: l'etoile

URGENT - failed connection

I was trying to connect to an archive and it says 'failed connection'...it is quite urgent that I have to access the web page...i was wondering how long it would take to fix the server...by this week?...

Posted by: kingcrow

Large WiFi nets

Considering our best efforts at the mesh network party, here is something that may shed some light. Bruce Wolfe +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Wireless LAN...

Posted by: BruceWolfe

SF Mayor announced ad-based wifi system for San Francisco

The Mayor of SF yesterday stood in a housing project that was WIRED with a fast non-commercial network created using muni fiber, archive transit, Mission development corp internal wiring, and one-eco...

Posted by: brewster

open-mesh results

It was great fun. We tried about 20 nodes in the presidio. It did not just snap into a network. We had more luck when we added one node at a time. With one hop, across a street, we got 570Kb do...

Posted by: brewster

Mesh Day Live Stream

You can listen in to the Mesh Day conference, happening now, by opening this stream in QuickTime Player on Mac/Windows or Totem Player on linux: rtsp://dev01.sheridan.archive.org:8001/confroom.sdp

Posted by: rkumar

Dashboard for Open-Mesh this MeshDay

We got 20 Open-mesh units, and have been turning them on and starting to find the issues. If you want to see them, go to https://www.open-mesh.com/overview.php username archive, password archive ...

Posted by: brewster

Battery life for mesh day

OpenMesh MAC 00:12:cf:80:66:aa On the bench they take 200mA at 6vdc idling w/o a LAN jack plugged in. Battery Test - Using 4x Duracell AA Alkaline batteries. Start 3:34PM Power applied Start 3:3...

Posted by: pozar

MeshDay Update June 11, 2008 9-5

http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?inviteId=VGZRYITWHMHCPENOJVDA please come over to the Internet Archive and help us setup and test a pile of mesh units. pls write to info@archive.or...

Posted by: brewster

How exciting

I'm really excited to still see that the IA is still working on SFLAN. I would love to learn some more about the architecture and networking equipment behind the project. I'm a local network engineer...

Posted by: jofathan

Internet Archive Brings Free Ultra High-Speed Internet to Public Housing

http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=186011

Posted by: brewster

Mesh Day 2008

The Internet Archive is looking to organize a "Mesh Day" in San Francisco to test out mesh networking technologies. This would be an informal gathering of net-heads to try to make it all ...

Posted by: brewster

Housing project currently using about 5Mbits/sec average

In the couple of weeks that the first housing project came up, they are averaging about 5Mbits/sec of usage with spikes to 15Mb/sec in 5 minute avg. What we hear is that people are very happy with th...

Posted by: brewster

Updated Community Wireless architecture

The Internet Archive is happy to work with the City of San Francisco and a host of other non-profits to take another approach to community wireless. This involves fiber connected buildings, and soon...

Posted by: brewster

just sflan.org!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

is there a problem with the servers? i cant go to some sites like windows update or youtube, when i go page can not be displayed or all scwerd up. ethernet connection is 100%.

Posted by: gulu6565

Re: Academic Research on Wireless Community Networks

There are no problems. Has answered all questions. [Spam links removed.] This post was modified by Ralf Muehlen on 2008-03-21 03:44:18

Posted by: greg34

Academic Research on Wireless Community Networks

Hello, I'm a French PhD student in sociology. My research focuses on "innovations made by and for users". I have decided to particularly focus on "Wireless Community Networks" which are illustrati...

Posted by: Cédric Calvignac

Re: Node in the Sunset?

Darth, I've used that 8dBi omni, with good results. Just don't try to use it for wardriving: the magnetic base isn't strong enough. Email me 2007@webdog.com if you're interested in testing it before y...

Posted by: webdog

Re: SFLan made obsolete by sf.meraki.com

I have a granddaughter living in SF who needs a way to access the Internet. As a poor student, she doesn't have the money to purchase DSL or even have a land line phone, which for some reason, is ghas...

Posted by: GrampaSmitty

woody.archive.org went down with most SFLan?

I noticed that woody.archive.org evaluates to 207.241.237.253 which is part of all the other *.sflan.org IP's , so I am now guessing that woody was a server not at the central archive.org infrastructu...

Posted by: Andrew Morrow

All nodes down?

A few weeks ago, I could still ping four nodes: sflan8.sflan.org sflan11.sflan.org sflan13.sflan.org sflan18.sflan.org but even they no longer ping. The only thing that does ping is sfroute...

Posted by: Andrew Morrow

Re: SFLan made obsolete by sf.meraki.com

Is there any point to maintaining this as a project? Little forum activity, and I've not been able to connect to any of the nodes 8, 52, 56, or 13 (and occasionally 11) (e.g. tonight I could see 8, 5...

Posted by: cjp

Are BARWN and BAWUG alive?

It is clear that the BARWN and BAWUG web site have not been updated in years. When was they last time either of them had a meeting or an event? I have to wonder if they had any input into http://en...

Posted by: Andrew Morrow

Re: SFLan made obsolete by sf.meraki.com

I updated the verbiage at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Municipal_Wireless to read: SFLan, a project of the Internet Archive, constructed an experimental cooperative wireless int...

Posted by: Andrew Morrow

Re: SFLan made obsolete by sf.meraki.com

We wish Meraki all the best, and have repeatedly offered them bandwidth. Meraki is an advertising-supported way to extend DSL and cable modem lines and they are good for that purpose. Meraki makes DSL...

Posted by: Ralf Muehlen

SFLan made obsolete by sf.meraki.com

It seems that http://sf.meraki.com/ has rendered SFLan obsolete. I updated this wiki with some ad-hoc current info: http://wiki.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/SFLAN As of October 2007, in an ad-...

Posted by: Andrew Morrow

Getting Started

I'm interested in getting involved and helping out with SFLAN. As far as I can tell, parts seems to be a little neglected as of late. Is there just a lack of someone to keep and eye on stuff / mainta...

Posted by: jofathan

Re: ip address and map

Ralf, I thought that SFlan was dead, given no responses and no connectivity, and dead links from the http://www.archive.org/web/sflan.php web page. But now I see there are still recent mess...

Posted by: GioAgain

Re: Meraki anyone?

I don't see why Meraki would need SFLan. They've covered more of SF in 6 months than SFLan has in 4 years. For the very first time, I have Wi-Fi within a mile of my Sunset house. Thanks, Meraki!

Posted by: webdog

Re: Need a Node

I don't remember sflan connectivity in that area. There is a "Free the Net" repeater at that corner though.

Posted by: Paul Lindner

Need a Node

The node map page won't load for me. Can anyone tell me if there's a node I can access from downtown at Geary and Taylor?

Posted by: landonsf2la

Meraki anyone?

I've been fairly impressed with what Meraki has been able to accomplish. http://sf.meraki.net/ Is there any possibility that these two projects could merge somehow? The meraki devices are a l...

Posted by: Paul Lindner

Re: who wants the sflan39 hardware?

sorry, it's been donated already...

Posted by: steffenyount

Re: who wants the sflan39 hardware?

Still available? I am looking into starting a node in SF.

Posted by: jasongolod

dhcp from sflan11

I haven't been able to get an IP address from sflan11 for the past week. Everything was working fine for about a month, up until last Wednesday evening (July 11th) when I could no longer get one. ...

Posted by: MichaelnSF

Re: ip address and map

I tested a few of those nodes and and no problem getting an IP address. I restarted the DHCP server, just in case. To help to isolate the problem, may I ask what operating system and version you ar...

Posted by: Ralf Muehlen

ip address and map

hey there, i get signals from sflan8 11 13 49 52 and 56 from my place in cole valley but i dont get an ip address and cant connect to the internet, any ideas? whats the password for the map? ...

Posted by: CrateTV

Re: who wants the sflan39 hardware?

Hello, I am in Sunnyside on the hill south facing City Collage,Mangels avenue. Would this be a good place for a node? Is this all the hardware needed to run a node? Thanx kentkb

Posted by: kentkb

Re: who wants the sflan39 hardware?

If you don't mind it being used for alameda wireless, I'll take it. ;)

Posted by: Drew @ alamedawireless.org

Re: who wants the sflan39 hardware?

sorry that should have said: 1x 12db omni with a 3deg down-tilt

Posted by: steffenyount

who wants the sflan39 hardware?

Hi, My sister is moving out of the place where sflan39 is hosted, (on top of Potrero hill) and I'll be taking the hardware down off her roof this Thursday. Who wants the hardware? 1x 24db pa...

Posted by: steffenyount

Re: Nodes in Western Addition

Here is the information I found out from Ralf (thank you!) From where I am, I can't connect to the LAN because I am not in the line-of-site of another node. I would have to have a broadband connect...

Posted by: Luxomedia

Re: DHCP Server Possibly Down?

Even though my client can associate with sflan11 with 40% signal strength, I still haven't been able to get an IP via DHCP since Sunday, 2/11 when the whole network went down for a few hours. So ye...

Posted by: MichaelnSF

Re: Nodes in Western Addition

I am also interested. I am at the Northwest edge of the Western Addition. On Sutter and Lyon.

Posted by: smillis

Nodes in Western Addition

I'm interested in getting some nodes up in the Western Addition. Anyone else? Maybe we can help each other out. (Since there's no email replies here on the contact us link) There's 2 possible rooftops...

Posted by: Luxomedia

Re: DHCP Server Possibly Down?

Connecting to sflan11.

Posted by: MichaelnSF

Re: DHCP Server Possibly Down?

Which node are you connecting to?

Posted by: Ralf Muehlen

Re: DHCP Server Possibly Down?

Thanks for restarting the DHCP server, but even with the restart, I still haven't been able to get an IP address since last week Sunday (2/11) when the network seemed to go down. Is it possible that...

Posted by: MichaelnSF

Re: DHCP Server Possibly Down?

I restarted the DHCP server. It failed due to a tunnelling change. The monitoring is affected by the tunnelling change as well, so that'll take some time to sort out. Ralf

Posted by: Ralf Muehlen

DHCP Server Possibly Down?

Is the DHCP server down? I was connected to SF Lan fine last week, but since Sunday morning I haven't been able to get an IP address. Could someone check the DHCP server please? I notice woody is...

Posted by: MichaelnSF