7.27.08
AW66 Up!
Don has placed AW's latest node on the air. AW66 sits atop a 3-story home on the northwest shore of Bay Farm Island (BFI), east of AW4. AW66 provides coverage along the south side of the main island as well as penetration into the middle areas of Harbor Bay Isle. AW66 uses a mast-mounted node router, and is the first AW node to run the pcengines ALIX single board computer. AW66 runs a Voyage Linux OS. AW66 also is the first AW node to house an embedded computer inside a Pacific Wireless Rootena. The Rootenna is a directional panel antenna "with a pouch" - a compartment inside the antenna enclosure that houses the computerboard. This way, the antenna doubles as a weather tight enclosure for the router. AW66 is powered by a pair of 400 mW Engenius /a/b/g radios.

3.20.08
Alameda Hospital Up!
AW61 is our latest node, now atop the 8-story Administration building at Alameda Hospital. AW61 is ideally situated in the center of the main island as the third highest node elevation in the AW Network. This node will be able to reach many locations in the central portion of the main island as well as to link many more distant portions of Alameda and surrounding cities. AW61 is using 350 mW Mikrotik /a/b/g radios. AW61 is the second key node funded solely from donations to AW.

2.9.08
USS Hornet Up!
AW56 is our latest node, now up aboard the USS Hornet. The AW56 antennas are mounted at the top of the island at the level of the base of the mast. This is a key node, with the highest "flatland" elevation in the AW Network at well over 100' above sea level. AW55 is of course higher, atop the Oakland hills. AW56 is the first node to use Mikrotik 350 mW /a/b/g radios. AW56 is the first node funded by donations to AW, and is the fruition of many members' labor. This node can reach nearly any spot in Alameda.

10.17.07
AW65 Up!
AW65 is our newest node, now up at just to the west of Alameda High School. Tony has done a great job of getting his node designed, installed, configured and operating. AW65 uplinks to AW63, which uplinks to AW4.

4.17.07
Airport Node Up!
AW62 is our newest node, now up at the private plane hangers of Oakland Airport's North Field. Bill, Joe and Paul have done a fantastic job getting this node on the air. It uplinks to AW55 using a 24 dBi parabolic antenna and intends to serve the broadband needs of private pilots at the airport. This node had to successfully overcome AW's first instance of intentional radio interference - from a nearby industrial plant.

4.09.07
Lucky 13 Up!
Lucky 13 (formerly The Buckhorn), at the intersection of Park and Encinal, is AW's newest node. AW63 has a 3.5 mbit/s. link to AW4. Doug and Dan put 400 mW Senao a/b/g radios into this router. AW4 is in the process of converting two of it's radios to the same model Senao. Once AW4 has a/b/g radios, testing will begin with /g speeds between AW1, AW4 and AW63. This will be our first 802.11g testing. We hope to see even faster data transfer speeds - perhaps approaching 20 Mbits/s. with the /g links.

10.10.06
Oakland Tower Up!
During the history of AW we have tried to spread our wings, first to SF and then via the Oakland hills, but we finally have a working node high up in the hills, from here we should be able to connect to the north end of the island instead of waiting for all the intermediary nodes to come online.

4.20.06
April meeting
We've made a lot of progress lately, you can view an email about it here

1.19.06
January board meeting
We now have 8 nodes online and 8 voting members of the board who were here for the board meeting.

1.15.06
La Vals now hosting AW54
Our latest node is up as Dan's La Vals Pizza parlor got a new omni mounted on the roof, not yet part of the network he is providing free internet to the outside world the same way he was providing it to his pizza customers.

1.7.06
AW53 is up for real
After some initial problems with wind storms John's new node is now up and connects to AW4 and allowing Cris and Rich and Randy full access to AlamedaWireless from his location on mid-Broadway

10.20.05
October board meeting
Biggest meeting yet. More than 10 people, perhaps more than 20. We met at Alameda's JavaRama on Park St. with laptops akimbo running Google Earth. Lots of discussion of getting signals from point A to many point B's. Unfortunately it was too chaotic to take notes as the noise level caused the meeting to break up into small groups that could hear each other. Cris was elected to organize the RF testing effort.

09.14.05
AW gets nonprofit status
Official notice from the federal government of Alameda Wireless's new 501(c)4 status, so we can govern ourselves without having to spend $800 a year in corporation taxes.

09.14.05
Node AW52 is on the air! This is a fairly short range node, but may cover the beach across the street.

08.31.05
Node AW1 is on the air! Drew is now donating internet access into the Alameda Wireless network.

02.26.05
The mailing list is up to 120 125 130 135 users.

Drew has moved to the willows complex, check out the LOS.

01.20.05
January meeting
Meeting was attended by 8-10 people. Still looking for a high building in Alameda to donate roof space to move AW6 to.

10.21.04
October board meeting
Tonight we were presented with the new dynamic node map that makes it much easier to add people's locations to our map, thanks Drew. Also Josh has finally got his Node 8 up and running connected direcly to Pete so there are now two nodes on Bay Farm Island. In attendance were Node Owners Pete, Randy, Rich, Cris, and Josh, as well as Drew, Wilmer, Brian, and the North Berkeley contingent Scott, Paul, and Zan. Some newbies like Mark showed up too. The discussions were mostly about making antenna and checking out line of sight from node to node.

New AlamedaWireless Nodes
Although they are not yet connected to the main network to SFLan new Node 29 and Node 30 run by Rich and Cris, connecting to each other are now active near the Bay Farm bridge on the main island.

Mailing list
We now have over 100 members on our Mailing List

7.15.04
July Board and General Membership Meeting The board met and spoke of incorporation and non-profit, then the membership met and we showed hardware people are using, discussed line of sight connectivity and Pete ran a presentation on what the group is.

6.14.04
Alameda Wireless membership surpasses 100 mark! Alameda Wireless has been growing steadily and this week attained a milestone - reaching a record 100 members.

6.6.04
Alameda Wireless in Print! The weekend of the 6th of June an article about our organization appeared in the ANG series of newspapers. ANG however covers much larger area than our Alamedacentric net.

6.6.04
Alameda Wireless, Inc. is now organized as a corporation. It is in the process of filing for nonprofit status.

04.11.04
AlamedaWireless has got Internet. Pete is now connected to SFLAN39 and is routing the SFLAN Internet connection to anyone in Alameda with line of sight to his or any AW node. Internet speed test to CNet is running around 400 Kbits/s (about 50 Kbytes/s) at the moment. FREE Internet!

04.9.04
Drew and Pete scanned from Pete's location with his 24dBi mounted parabolic grid antenna and discovered a strong signal from SFLAN39 in San Francisco. They successfully obtained a DHCP lease from SFLAN and reached the Internet through SFLAN. They continue testing and working on the routing configuration to place this connection onto the AW net. File transfer speed 155 Kbytes/s, but it's only an omni at the SF end - lots of room for improvement!

04.7.04
Second link from site to site is up and runs across the bay from Pete's original base station to Law's new antenna. We span into the middle of the main island. 2560 Kbits/s (about 320 Kbytes/s) - Internet speed test to CNet!

03.27.04
First link from site to site is up and runs across the bay from Pete's original base station to Randy's new antenna and cd booted setup. We span 94502 and 94501. 400 KBytes/s!

03.27.04
Link from Pat to Pete tested good. We were unable to establish a link from Ron to Pat - too many obstacles. File transfer: 2 Mbits/s (about 250 Kbytes/s) Pete to Pat

03.21.04
Check out our mailing list, we have started creating sample nodes using old laptops with high power network cards and group purchased antenna. We even have our own spool of super low-loss cable to connect with.

03.17.04
Pete has successfully created a wireless network node by installing a hacked firmware into a Linksys wireless router. This is the first step in building an inexpensive routing station. The goal is to get the price under $230 per house.

12.27.03
Testing confirms links from Pete to Josh to Dan to Darrel are possible.

We have started a group purchase plan starting with 10 wireless radios and omni antenna, this should spur a collection of new nodes. Up until now there has only been the one at Pete's.

Pete has set up his omni, and has been running tests around the island. Most recently he tried to find a really long distance line-of-sight connection and went to the Morman Temple and found he could transfer files about as fast as he could locally from about 5 miles away!

To read about the setup and other hookups check out the statistics page.