[Sugar-devel] EduJAM day 1 Tour of Uruguay

[Sean DALY]

The OLPC France association will bring wifi to its Nosy Komba
(Madagascar) deployment this way in June [1], packing antennas,
routers, solar panels, batteries and masts in trunks (!) and setting
them up with local help through line of site wifi over 11km from an
xDSL connection on the nearby larger island of Nosy Be directly to the
XS school server in the school compound. This will be the first
Internet connection on Nosy Komba Island.

Bastien will be with you to tell you more about Nosy Komba ;-)

Sean

1. http://olpc-france.org/wiki/index.php?title=Projet_Nosy_Komba_2011#R.C3.A9seaux



On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 10:29 PM, David Farning
<dfarning at activitycentral.com> wrote:
> EduJam started with a bang this morning with visit to the Aurora project in
> Tala, Uruguay.  The project, run by a local farmers cooperative, brings WIFI
> to farmers outside of Tala.  The local telcos decided that it is not
> profitable enough to bring service to the area. In true hacker  fashion they
> built their own system.
>
> The core of the system is a number of transmission towers which are
> connected via directional antennas.  These towers can be comfortably located
> about 10km apart. Each tower has a number of WIFI transmitters which serve
> local families. If the family is close they can use standard WIFI. As they
> move farther from the tower they use a systems of extenders to connect to
> the nearest tower.
>
> These towers are daisy chained to enable coverage for a wide area at a very
> low price. Back in Tala, a nearby community with internet connectivity, the
> projects connects via a standard DSL connection.
>
> The most amazing part is that they can set up a complete tower, antennas,
> and base station for less than $1,000 each. They fabricate the towers
> themselves. The families which will be using the tower erect it themselves.
> Some of the towers are taller than 20 meters. Pretty impressive. Once the
> tower is up, project members come and install the transmitters.
>
> It is a great example of hardware hacking. The local families, left behind
> by the local telco, are scratching their own itch to provide connectivity
> for their kids who use XOs and for themselves. The project members are
> freely sharing their knowledge and experience with other co-operatives so
> they can set up system for themselves and their children.
>
> Absolutely brilliant idea which is being well executed :)  Formal session
> was follow by an asado which gave us a great chance to talk with the people
> with that set up the project.
>
> david
>
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