The Importance of Being Local
September 3, 2010
I’m a big fan of Huawei‘s website. Like any good company they publish information intended for their clients, mobile operators. Reading their publications from the perspective of a…
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Mesh Potatoes Go On Sale
September 3, 2010
This is a big moment for the Village Telco. We have finally arrived at the of the journey that began in June 2008 when I sat down with some very, very bright and innovative people and together we…
- Tags: enclosure, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, potatoes, price, shipping arrangements, weather proof
Dili Village Telco Rolls Out
August 30, 2010
I’ve just blogged on the latest stage of the Dili Village Telco roll out in Timor Leste. Fascinating what can be learnt from a real world deployment. I find the social and business issues…
V1.3 Antenna Testing
August 6, 2010
The V1.3 (production) Mesh Potatoes has an etched (PCB) antennas. This post talks about how we tested this antenna and verified the V1.3 design. Testing at Atcom in June In June I was visiting…
- Tags: lead acid batteries, omni antennas, shenzhen china
Serval Arkaroola Demo
July 11, 2010
Yesterday I was a guest of the Serval team on an exciting field deployment in the Northern Flinders Ranges. It was a very busy day, starting at 4:30am and flying out at first light from Adelaide…
- Tags: field deployment, northern flinders ranges, pilatus pc12
Mesh Potato Firmware Recovery
June 4, 2010
Paul Gardner-Stephen had one of his MP01s “brick up” when attempting a GUI-based reflash and was having problems recovering. So I offered to take a look at it for him. Reflashing and…
- Tags: boot, daughter boards, linux kernel, module, red hat inc, xbd
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