[manchesterwireless] Anyone still active?

Darren Scales darren at sirdaz.com
Fri Jul 27 07:28:14 BST 2007


Waiting for a burst of thoughts..

On 26/07/07, Harry Moyes <harry at shoka.net> wrote:
>
> Reuben Finch wrote:
>
> >I am alive gents
> >
> >Kind Regards,
> >Reuben
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From:
> >manchesterwireless-bounces+reuben.finch=
> btinternet.com at lists.pointless.net
> >[mailto:
> manchesterwireless-bounces+reuben.finch=btinternet.com at lists.pointle
> >ss.net] On Behalf Of Ewan Leith
> >Sent: 25 July 2007 12:46
> >To: Manchester's Wireless Community Network discussion list
> >Subject: Re: [manchesterwireless] Anyone still active?
> >
> >Hi Andy, I'm still around, not sure who else is though :)
> >
> >The least hassle way of doing a failover would probably be build a
> >list of "heart-beat" ip addresses on the internet, and have the main
> >router do a loop of ping tests.
> >
> >if the pings failed for 30 minutes, then it could execute a script to
> >redo your network settings to point to the other adsl router and
> >re-run the test. if that also failed, at that point you'd probably
> >want to fail back to the original settings, so you didn't have a
> >messed up router sat there dead in the water...
> >
> >Ewan
> >
> >On 7/25/07, Andy Gauton <goot at the-crow.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hi All,
> >>
> >>Just thought I'd put a shout out to see who is still active on the list?
> >>Email traffic has been very low, so I'm guessing not many.
> >>
> >>Did anyone hear from Harry? I guess the plan at attempting to get a meet
> >>arranged well through.
> >>
> >>Warrington Wireless is still running strong with 3 main households
> >>
> >>
> >hammering
> >
> >
> >>it on a daily basis. Recently replaced all 3 routers with "newer"
> WRT54GS
> >>and DD-WRT firmware. Signal strengths have increased. Not sure whether
> >>
> >>
> >this
> >
> >
> >>is due to the faster processor or the firmware? Either way it's good for
> >>
> >>
> >us.
> >
> >
> >>Just looking into a way to combine both the current broadband feed and a
> >>backup ADSL feed for failover - this appears not to be as straight
> forward
> >>as I would have hoped.....
> >>
> >>Hope everyone is well.
> >>Regards
> >>Andy :)
> >>
> >>
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> Still listening .
>
> Harry
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