Wifi and Telephone for small community!

[rcampbell]

Stumbled across this when I was trying to think of an easy solution to have a phone and wifi in my brothers house, workshop, and my parents house since all the buildings are within 100 m of each other. This setup was pretty much all I had in mind, but was already built for me!

http://villagetelco.org/mesh-potato/

[Flyin6]

Cool...got me thinking

the farm...

[rcampbell]

Yup, that's what I was thinking I might do with mine as well, maybe buy half a dozen of them or something.

Not sure if you stumbled across this yet, but I think it's pretty cool:

http://villagetelco.org/2011/11/guest-post-adapting-mps-for-emergency-work/

[Flyin6]

I like everything about that except that it could be easily intercepted and monitored.
I keep getting back to secure comms...now if a system like that had some transceivers mounted in strategic oaks with those solar panels up there at canopy level...and they were securable, well that would make for a nice commo system for guys on headsets working the perimeter on nods at night pulling security.

So you could do all that or

get a dog

But the comms piece is indeed nice.

Gonna get one or a few?

[rcampbell]

Yeah definitely gonna get a couple, even just for comms between my house and workshop. I'm not 100% sure, but I think the ATA (analogue telephony interace) eventually turns the phone calls into VoIP (pretty sure it runs Asterisk), which I would think could (should ) be encrypted? The telephony stuff is pretty much outside my realm of expertise though.

[JR]

My wireless router is mounted up high now, but will move it to the seconds floor and I have an extender for it.

I like your idea with solar panels and such Don. Looking at adding a couple to my trailer now and just got 2k watts in panels for a grid tie system out back for the pool and AC. Will post he progress as I setup.