<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:02 AM, BaluNet.de <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pub01@balunet.de">pub01@balunet.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I am living in a monastery in Tsopema and now broadband has reached our<br>
village.</blockquote><div><br></div><div> Hi, Balu!</div><div><br></div><div>I can't help you directly, but I can point you to some resources that surely can!</div><div>By the way, how do you connect to the internet from the Monastery?</div>
<div><br></div><div>And are you aware of the Dharamsala gang, where Yahel and friends have set up a mesh network?:</div><div><a href="http://www.tibtec.org/">http://www.tibtec.org/</a><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Now, I would like to set up a hotspot to be used by tourists for the<br>
monastery to create a little income for the monks and the orphans.<br>
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I understand that I need a wifi router like WRT54GL? There I can install openwrt and wifidog?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Only if you want to install the wifidog gateway on the router along with OpenWRT. An alternative is to install the gateway software AND the Auth Server software on an old PC with TWO Network cards, running Linux (e.g., Ubuntu).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Chris Rowson reads this mailing list, and he may be able to give you more details. You should check out his Community Wireless project here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://justuber.com/publicwifi:public_wireless_internet_access">http://justuber.com/publicwifi:public_wireless_internet_access</a> </div>
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Do I need a pc running to check how long customers use the service or can it<br>
all run in the routers OS?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The wifidog Auth Server does the statistics for you. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<br></blockquote></div>I hope this gets you moving, Balu. Good luck!<br>-- <br>- Jeff<br>