[Fourlanders] FW: Internet on mountain

Sat May 31 00:25:49 EDT 2008

FYI.  Good news from Bill about his Verizon wireless card.  If we can get
Verizon on the mountain top then we should be golden for internet access.
With that we can access APRS, DX cluster and anything else we might need.
Thanks to Bill and Brian for working on this.  Keep your fingers crossed.

73
Jim, W4KXY

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Pence [mailto:pence.bill at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 4:52 PM
To: wa4kxy at bellsouth.net
Subject: Re: Internet on mountain

whoo hoo!!
card connected right away, no issue.
as long as we can get VZN on top of mtn, we are GOOD.

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Bill Pence <pence.bill at gmail.com> wrote:
> yep. I drive right by.
> I'll call you soon.
>
> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Brian McCarthy <nx9o at arrl.net> wrote:
>> My office is: 5110 McGinnis Ferry Rd, Alpharetta, GA 30005 - Translate
>> that into the building just to the left off the end of Windward
>> Parkway at McGinnis Ferry Road. The company is Assembleon America,
>> Inc. It sounds like you might be all but driving by.
>>
>> Here is a Google link with my truck centered in the picture:
>>
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=&ie=UTF8&ll=34.095763,-84.2
1002&spn=0.001071,0.001824&t=h&z=19
>>
>> My direct office number is 770-751-4563. I won't have the truck
>> tomorrow, but I will make sure to have the router with me. Any work
>> day is fine. Drop on over and we can test your card in this router.
>>
>> Let me know,
>> Brian
>> NX9O
>>
>> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Bill Pence <pence.bill at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> http://www.evdoinfo.com/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,115/
>>>
>>> found this tidbit of info, but I don't know how much to credence to
place
>>> in it: (In the original, the Verizon and Alltel cars are lined through.)
>>>    * Sprint:
>>>      S620, AC580, PC5740, S720, AC595, PX-500, EX720*, 597E**
>>>    * Verizon:
>>>      KPC650, PC5750 TOO many issues. get a KR2 instead!
>>>    * Alltel:
>>>      PC5750 TOO many issues. get a KR2 instead!
>>>
>>> BUT I did find this post:
>>> http://www.evdoforums.com/thread3581-0-asc-15.html
>>> xplorer
>>> EVDO Newbie
>>>
>>> Joined: 14 Feb 2007
>>> Posts: 1
>>>
>>> PostPosted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 7:40 am
>>> SVCJeff - I just installed Verizon (PC 5750) on the Linksys.
>>> Installation and obtaining service went smoothly although it is
>>> interesting to see Sprint as the network on the linksys install screen
>>> when its actually connected to the verizon network!!
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Brian McCarthy <nx9o at arrl.net> wrote:
>>>> Hmmm....there are not that many cards that work with my router. It is
>>>> a Linksys WRT54G3G. I do not see it on the active product pages of
>>>> Linksys anymore. The compatible wireless cards are listed at
>>>> http://www.evdoinfo.com/content/view/553/40/ . Is you card on that
>>>> list?
>>>>
>>>> The PCMCIA slot in my router is not a generic slot. There is very
>>>> little that I can download in the way of drivers to support "modem"
>>>> wireless cards. If it is on the list, it should work.
>>>>
>>>> Currently, I am using 192.168.1.1 as the router's address and it does
>>>> serve DHCP. My router can connect to either a WAN ethernet connection
>>>> or to a wireless broadband connection through my Sprint EVDO PCMCIA
>>>> card. It can actually be configured to use the wired WAN connection as
>>>> primary with the Sprint card as backup.
>>>>
>>>> If we wanted to try all the hardware together, that will be a bit more
>>>> of a challenge. I live and work in Alpharetta in the Windward area.
>>>>
>>>> Let me know what you think,
>>>> Brian
>>>> NX9O
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Bill Pence <pence.bill at gmail.com>
wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> so if I understand, it would be aircard - my pc - wired eth  - wan
>>>>> interface on router - lan to W4NH
>>>>> so my wired port gets static IP, router uses this as gateway, and DHCP
>>>>> to W4NH lan.
>>>>>
>>>>> I added Brian so he can tell us the following answer:
>>>>> Can his router that has the PC card socket 'dial'.  I have discovered
that my
>>>>> PC 'simply' dials #777 to the pcmcia aircard, which looks like a
modem...
>>>>> no fancy connection app required...
>>>>>
>>>>> then we can just plug my card into the router in place of Brian's
Sprint card.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, we should be able to get together.  It might be best one evening
>>>>> as I head home
>>>>> from Lawrenceville to Ball Ground. (my office is beside Discover
Mills)
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Scott Spencer <scott.nn4w at gmail.com>
wrote:
>>>>> > Brain fart on my end. We're not using WiFi for the stations. I was
thinking
>>>>> > of our Field Day set up, (which you should come to by the way).
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Since Brian is using his router to feed the station PC's, they would
be
>>>>> > getting their IP's from that.  The only IP's we would need to hard
code is
>>>>> > the one for the ad-hoc, (your machine), and Brian's router.  Brian's
router
>>>>> > would then act as the gateway.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > The only machines we would need to touch would be yours and Brian's
router.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I'll check with Brian to see what his network addresses are setup
for.  If
>>>>> > his router is setup to serve the 192.168.xxx.xxx addresses, we could
set up
>>>>> > the ad-hoc as a 10.0.0.x subnet and have his router use that as the
internet
>>>>> > gateway.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > We could test this out on our own if you have a day free on a
weekend before
>>>>> > the contest.  I see you're in Ballground. I'm in Dawsonville, so I'm
not
>>>>> > that far.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Scott
>>>>> > NN4W
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Bill Pence wrote:
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> Scott,
>>>>> >> KI4US here.
>>>>> >> Your email on QRZ.com needs update  ;-)
>>>>> >> google to the rescue...
>>>>> >> I have done the following:
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> I selected my aircard to share, and configured the wireless
>>>>> >> as an ad-hoc network, calling it W4NH.  This is the AP laptop.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> I am able to SEE the W4NH net and CONNECT to it with my client
laptop,
>>>>> >> BUT my client laptop does not get an IP from the AP laptop (it
shows a
>>>>> >> 169.x.x.x 'automatic' address) and thus cannot access the internet.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> We might need to go static, but I'd love to DHCP...
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> any ideas?
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >>  - bp
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>
>>>
>>
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