We started Holloway Bar's technological journey almost six years ago now - and the infrastructure at the minesite has been improving every season. It started small with a basic satellite Internet connection connected to a wireless router and external antenna. The first season saw a couple of webcams on the property to upload snapshots to hollowaybar.com every few minutes with no real thoughts on changing the basic setup - but technology changes and a desire to help educate people about placer mining and share our northern adventure soon meant that some improvements were needed. Every year, small things were added to the system - sometimes just another camera with a directional antenna to talk to camp - and when Scott & Del started mining just beyond the range of the first network, we experimented with our first wireless repeater system. The initial system worked but wasn't always reliable, so this spring, Al designed a new system that could take us into the future. Now, we have a dedicated wireless link from camp to the home-built dual-radio repeater system located about 300 meters from camp, where the signal is redirected back up into the bush, allowing fast access to the mine-site cameras and supplying network connections to laptops allowing the miners to always keep in touch with the world.
Monday, July 18, 2011
Al's Repeater
We started Holloway Bar's technological journey almost six years ago now - and the infrastructure at the minesite has been improving every season. It started small with a basic satellite Internet connection connected to a wireless router and external antenna. The first season saw a couple of webcams on the property to upload snapshots to hollowaybar.com every few minutes with no real thoughts on changing the basic setup - but technology changes and a desire to help educate people about placer mining and share our northern adventure soon meant that some improvements were needed. Every year, small things were added to the system - sometimes just another camera with a directional antenna to talk to camp - and when Scott & Del started mining just beyond the range of the first network, we experimented with our first wireless repeater system. The initial system worked but wasn't always reliable, so this spring, Al designed a new system that could take us into the future. Now, we have a dedicated wireless link from camp to the home-built dual-radio repeater system located about 300 meters from camp, where the signal is redirected back up into the bush, allowing fast access to the mine-site cameras and supplying network connections to laptops allowing the miners to always keep in touch with the world.
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Sweet!
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