Playa Network

[ihor]

Last year there was a network on the playa. I think it was using Ubiquity Bullet 5 transceivers and antennas, but I'm not sure if that was the hardware. Is that happening this year?

[Elderberry]

Are you talking about WIFI service to the outside world? Yes, it will be available this year. Or at least as available as it has been or can be.

[ihor]

It was the backbone for the playa wifi. We are at 10&G, so we cant easily just move on over to one of the sites which had the traditional WiFi. But BM set up a net at 5GHz to get the Wifi over to a couple of other places, and, it was ok to hook up if you had the right stuff.... I am looking for someone to confirm, that thats the right stuff.... The Ubiquity Bullet 5....

[some seeing eye]

You should contact these folks now, before everyone disappears into playabrain:
http://eplaya.burningman.org/viewtopic. ... 92#p695355

If you are a wireless geek, you might introduce yourself to the in playa open source GSM camp just for fun.

[Gumby Roffo]

From what I noticed this year the main connection to the 5Ghz net was using Ubiquity M5 Nano Bridges. A excellent piece of kit and POE. Some camps then fed this 5Ghz link to First camp into a local domestic wifi router/switch and then set their own SSID and passwords for their camp. Most common on this link was the radio stations broadcasting across the Playa. I would guess from all the links that First camp or Media meca had a M5 rocket with a Omni antenna.