Please come along this Sunday to support Creekside Centre and make merry in the mud whilst the Thames Barrier is up. The Open Wireless Network was first seeded here as Boundless in 2003 and we continue to collaborate on shared resources and support so come and find us there!

The disruption of network access suffered in the last weeks has now been resolved and connections are working as well as ever. Developers of the Open-Mesh product had a giant mind fart which killed all the active networks worldwide. Needless to say they were very embarrassed but we have now responded and repaired each of the 40 OWN nodes, 30 of which are in service again.

Wireless Wednesday is a weekly workshop mostly held at http://bit.spc.org - Greenwich. It starts at 2pm and runs till 8PM where network node holders and users can meet each other, share information and prepare equipment for installation.

We do also hold workshops in different areas where open wireless networks are operating such as Kingston Upon Thames where a group called Comconnected run a network in Cambridge Estate. Recently Wireless Wednesday was held at Deptford Housing Coop Hall where all those living in coop houses have wireless access and share information.

One very pleasurable aspect of open wireless networking is the regular opportunity to view these panoramas from high up on rooftops and highrisers as we travel about installing equipment.

Recently we took to a roof at the top of Deptford High Street where we shot this lovely view.

OWN makes the grade with a more users online than ever before and fast on the way to 40 new mesh nodes up and going. Please sign up if you haven't done so already so we can see who you are! Yes thats right 3 months of thrashing about and a good deal of hard graft by TB and San of SPC paid off. ROBIN firmware we use is now at b1.3 with OLSR which has improved performance overall.

Here is an image of the equipment we recommend for those of you joining OWN and extending the active area of coverage. This unit is a mass produced wireless router which runs on 5v and uses ROBIN firmware, which help in management and monitoring. You can buy one from the open-mesh.com website shop and link up to OWN. We also recommend Flatenna a flatpack parabolic dish to help you link up!

Its been 2 weeks since 40 open-mesh routers were delivered to the SPC hq and Wireless Wednesday location bit.spc.org. In that short time we have experienced early success, frustration and confusion till at last with determination and fluster free refinement we have half of the old Boundless mesh converted and operational as OWN.

The first of the new OWN routers have been successfully installed today. Astaroth's node [Brand] now links to [Memory] and we spent the morning looking at the tools provided at Open-Mesh and speculated on the 39 yet to be upgraded.

Today we took delivery of the first 40 open-mesh routers we will use to replace the old faithfull boundless kit and launch OWN.

First impressions are very good with easy configuration at http://open-mesh.com intuative web based management system. We already have 8 of the routers up and running on the bench here in bit.spc.org

Here are five warming up.. only another 32 to do!

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