A donor who wishes to remain anonymous has donated some wireless gear to the DDW group. It includes several Linksys WAP54G access points, some PCI cards and some huge 24dBi mesh dishes! There was also a box of bits and pieces which includes an amount of LMR cable, some cat6, some external mounting boxes, N connectors, pigtails, etc.

We would like to thank the donor and it will be put to good use.

This may have occurred due to the following factors:

• Key people have moved away
• Lack of organisation / no central administration
• Existing members have lost any motivation to continue due to the above (and below) and having other commitments
• Popularity of ADSL broadband can give better performance in some cases and this will increase as ADSL2+ becomes available in Toowoomba & The Darling Downs.

In some cases, ADSL is still not available, so people have chosen Satellite (bad!) or Wireless Internet by Bluesomething in Toowoomba.

But, all is not lost - if you would like to help re-start DDWireless, recreate the mesh, just to have fun (It does have other advantages eg: Unmetered data, Higher upload speeds than ADSL and even higher download speeds depending on the equipment used, and of course its a private network meaning internet "outages" won't affect it etc. Can be used for games, VoIP, filesharing, and lots more!), then leave a comment below and register to this website.

Once you are registered, you can edit this HIPI page to let us know that you are interested.