KansasCity/July2012SiteSurveys
The below documents sites in Kansas City visited during the KansasCity/July2012Hack.
TODO: map of locations, line of sight, and occlusion cone
TODO: link to uploaded photos
TODO: test equipment and firmware versions
Top floor of Oak Tower
Address: 324 E 11th St # 100, Kansas City, MO (google maps)
Approx. Distance to Oak Tower: 0 km
This is the site where the access point antenna was installed, pointing east from the south-most window. Antenna was mounted at shoulder height on a tripod about half a meter back from the window. The window itself is sunk in a half meter alcove from the stone surface of the building. Window is fairly large, about a meter and a half wide. Radio had absolutely no direct line of sight to the south, though there might have been bounce around in the room and out the other windws. All the windows are glass with chicken wire with a hole diameter of a couple centimeters (unmeasured, looks standard).
We did connectivity tests indoors with the "far" radio lying on the ground at the base of the tower. Very likely there were significant reflections and scatter in this environment.
When going through "Distribution and Access", configuration was:
laptop [ethernet to] node1 nanostation [wifi ad-hoc to] tower1 nanostation [ethernet to] FNF_T01_3G01 radio [3.65GHz bridge to] FNF_L01_3G01 radio [ethernet via USB to] router
When going through "Distribution only", configuration was:
laptop [ethernet to] FNF_T01_3G01 radio [3.65GHz bridge to] FNF_L01_3G01 radio [ethernet via USB to] router
Access point (data center side) radio reported:
Device Name: FNF_L01_3G01 Network Mode: Bridge Wireless Mode: Access Point WDS SSID: FNF_Distribution Security: WPA2-AES Version: v5.3 Uptime: 03:25:27 Date: 2011-01-14 18:07:24 Channel/Frequency: 151 / 3661 MHz Channel Width: 20 MHz ACK/Distance: 28 / 0.1 miles (0.2 km) TX/RX Chains: 2X2 WLAN MAC: 00:27:22:80:9D:D7 LAN MAC: 00:27:22:81:9D:D7 LAN1/LAN2: 100Mbps-Full / Unplugged
Client radio (tower side) radio reported:
Device Name: FNF_T01_3G01 Network Mode: Bridge Wireless Mode: Station WDS SSID: FNF_Distribution Security: WPA2 Version: v5.3 Uptime: 00:42:43 Date: 2011-01-14 15:24:40 Channel/Frequency: 151 / 3661 MHz Channel Width: 20 MHz ACK/Distance: 28 / 0.1 miles (0.2 km) TX/RX Chains: 2X2 WLAN MAC: 00:27:22:80:9E:D1 LAN MAC: 00:27:22:81:9E:D1 LAN1/LAN2: 100Mbps-Full / Unplugged
Client radio (tower side) radio reported connection to access point as:
Device Name: FNF_L01_3G01 Connection Time: 00:40:46 Signal Strength: -10 dBm Noise Floor: -95 dBm ACK/Distance: 28 / 0.1 miles (0.2 km) CCQ: 100% Last IP: 10.185.10.5 TX/RX Rate: 78.0 Mbps / 130.0 Mbps TX/RX Packets: 49746 / 61487 TX/RX Packet Rate, pps: 0 / 0 Bytes Transmitted: 30476179 (29.06 MBytes) Bytes Received: 65112906 (62.10 MBytes)
testmy.net bandwidth through Distribution and Access:
:::.. Combined Test Results ..::: Download Connection:: 7755 Kbps or 7.6 Mbps Download Test Size:: 6.3 MB or 6451 kB or 6606029 bytes Download Speed:: 969 kB/s Upload Connection:: 7649 Kbps or 7.5 Mbps Upload Test Size:: 5.8 MB or 5983 kB or 6126840 bytes Upload Speed:: 956 kB/s Tested At:: http://TestMy.net version:12 Test Time:: 2012-07-06 22:48:53 Local Time Validation:: http://testmy.net/db/mjnqXTW.VqxwzeE User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.4) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.4 Iceweasel/10.0.4 [!]
ping through Distribution and Access:
bnewbold@ziggy:~$ ping freenetworkfoundation.org PING freenetworkfoundation.org (69.195.131.30) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from www.freenetworkmovement.org (69.195.131.30): icmp_req=1 ttl=61 time=3.47 ms 64 bytes from www.freenetworkmovement.org (69.195.131.30): icmp_req=2 ttl=61 time=3.24 ms 64 bytes from www.freenetworkmovement.org (69.195.131.30): icmp_req=3 ttl=61 time=3.41 ms 64 bytes from www.freenetworkmovement.org (69.195.131.30): icmp_req=4 ttl=61 time=3.50 ms 64 bytes from www.freenetworkmovement.org (69.195.131.30): icmp_req=5 ttl=61 time=3.43 ms 64 bytes from www.freenetworkmovement.org (69.195.131.30): icmp_req=6 ttl=61 time=3.23 ms ^C --- freenetworkfoundation.org ping statistics --- 6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 5008ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 3.239/3.386/3.509/0.125 ms
iperf TCP through Distribution and Access, to a non-site-local server:
bnewbold@ziggy:~$ iperf -c rooter.is -p 5555 ------------------------------------------------------------ Client connecting to rooter.is, TCP port 5555 TCP window size: 23.5 KByte (default) ------------------------------------------------------------ [ 3] local 10.10.6.78 port 45187 connected with 50.116.57.44 port 5555 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 3] 0.0-10.2 sec 15.6 MBytes 12.9 Mbits/sec
iperf UDP through Distribution and Access, to a non-site-local server:
bnewbold@ziggy:~$ iperf -c rooter.is -p 5555 -u ------------------------------------------------------------ Client connecting to rooter.is, UDP port 5555 Sending 1470 byte datagrams UDP buffer size: 224 KByte (default) ------------------------------------------------------------ [ 3] local 10.10.6.78 port 39924 connected with 50.116.57.44 port 5555 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.25 MBytes 1.05 Mbits/sec [ 3] Sent 893 datagrams [ 3] Server Report: [ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.25 MBytes 1.05 Mbits/sec 0.888 ms 0/ 893 (0%)
wget through Distribution and Access:
bnewbold@ziggy:~$ wget http://www.freenetworkfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ftn.ogv --2012-07-06 22:57:45-- http://www.freenetworkfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ftn.ogv Resolving www.freenetworkfoundation.org (www.freenetworkfoundation.org)... 69.195.131.30 Connecting to www.freenetworkfoundation.org (www.freenetworkfoundation.org)|69.195.131.30|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 10403460 (9.9M) [video/ogg] Saving to: `ftn.ogv' 100%[===========================================================================>] 10,403,460 2.67M/s in 3.8s 2012-07-06 22:57:49 (2.63 MB/s) - `ftn.ogv' saved [10403460/10403460]
wget through Distribution only:
bnewbold@ziggy:~$ http://www.freenetworkfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ftn.webm bash: http://www.freenetworkfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ftn.webm: No such file or directory bnewbold@ziggy:~$ wget http://www.freenetworkfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ftn.webm --2012-07-06 23:00:38-- http://www.freenetworkfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ftn.webm Resolving www.freenetworkfoundation.org (www.freenetworkfoundation.org)... 69.195.131.30 Connecting to www.freenetworkfoundation.org (www.freenetworkfoundation.org)|69.195.131.30|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 29728710 (28M) [video/webm] Saving to: `ftn.webm' 100%[===========================================================================>] 29,728,710 5.39M/s in 5.9s 2012-07-06 23:00:44 (4.84 MB/s) - `ftn.webm' saved [29728710/29728710]
ping through Distribution only:
bnewbold@ziggy:~$ ping freenetworkfoundation.org PING freenetworkfoundation.org (69.195.131.30) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from www.freenetworkmovement.org (69.195.131.30): icmp_req=1 ttl=63 time=1.76 ms 64 bytes from www.freenetworkmovement.org (69.195.131.30): icmp_req=2 ttl=63 time=1.86 ms 64 bytes from www.freenetworkmovement.org (69.195.131.30): icmp_req=3 ttl=63 time=2.00 ms 64 bytes from www.freenetworkmovement.org (69.195.131.30): icmp_req=4 ttl=63 time=1.70 ms 64 bytes from www.freenetworkmovement.org (69.195.131.30): icmp_req=5 ttl=63 time=1.77 ms ^C --- freenetworkfoundation.org ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4005ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.707/1.823/2.009/0.105 ms
testmy.net bandwidth through Distribution only:
:::.. Combined Test Results ..::: Download Connection:: 62338 Kbps or 60.9 Mbps Download Test Size:: 40.4 MB or 41370 kB or 42362470 bytes Download Speed:: 7792 kB/s or 7.6 MB/s Upload Connection:: 12982 Kbps or 12.7 Mbps Upload Test Size:: 5.8 MB or 5983 kB or 6126840 bytes Upload Speed:: 1623 kB/s or 1.6 MB/s Tested At:: http://TestMy.net version:12 Test Time:: 2012-07-06 23:07:12 Local Time Validation:: http://testmy.net/db/2Fz7NY5.DmYNISE User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.151 Safari/535.19 [!]
ping through Distribution only, to a non-site-local server:
bnewbold@ziggy:~$ iperf -c rooter.is -p 5555 -u ld@ziggy:~$ iperf -c rooter.is -p 5555 ------------------------------------------------------------ Client connecting to rooter.is, TCP port 5555 TCP window size: 23.5 KByte (default) ------------------------------------------------------------ [ 3] local 10.185.246.11 port 57890 connected with 50.116.57.44 port 5555 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 34.1 MBytes 28.5 Mbits/sec
iperf UDP through Distribution only, to a non-site-local server:
------------------------------------------------------------ Client connecting to rooter.is, UDP port 5555 Sending 1470 byte datagrams UDP buffer size: 224 KByte (default) ------------------------------------------------------------ [ 3] local 10.185.246.11 port 36102 connected with 50.116.57.44 port 5555 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.25 MBytes 1.05 Mbits/sec [ 3] Sent 893 datagrams [ 3] Server Report: [ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.25 MBytes 1.05 Mbits/sec 0.857 ms 0/ 893 (0%)
18th St
Address: 2409E 18th St. (???)
Approx. distance to Oak Tower: TODO
Industrial area, corporate park, had some line of sight.
"Centropolis Station" on East Truman
Across the street from USPS office (Centropolis Station, Kansas City MO 64126; google maps).
Approx. distance to Oak Tower: 5.6km
Top of a ridge, furthest location we tested connectivity at. Had lots of traffic posts and telephone wires in our line of sight, which was otherwise pretty good.
Data from July 6th, 2012 around 16:47 Central.
Link-layer connection strength (on tower-side radio) reported as:
Device Name:FNF_T01_3G01 Network Mode:Bridge Wireless Mode:Station WDS SSID:FNF_Distribution Security:WPA2 Version:v5.3 Uptime:00:04:21 Date:2011-01-14 14:46:18 Channel/Frequency:151 / 3661 MHz Channel Width:20 MHz ACK/Distance:66 / 3.6 miles (5.9 km) TX/RX Chains:2X2 WLAN MAC:00:27:22:80:9E:D1 LAN MAC:00:27:22:81:9E:D1 LAN1/LAN2:100Mbps-Full / Unplugged
Device Name: FNF_L01_3G01 Connection Time: 00:00:57 Signal Strength: -89 dBm Noise Floor: -94 dBm ACK/Distance: 66 / 3.6 miles (5.9 km) CCQ: - Last IP: 192.168.1.20 TX/RX Rate: 6.5 Mbps / - TX/RX Packets: 231 / 109 TX/RX Packet Rate, pps: 1 / 0 Bytes Transmitted: 27424 (26.78 kBytes) Bytes Received: 13575 (13.26 kBytes)
site survey:
MAC Address SSID Device Name Encryption Signal / Noise, dBm Frequency, GHz Channel 00:27:22:80:9D:D7 FNF_Distribution FNF_L01_3G01 WPA2 -85 / -94 3.661 151
Filling Station
Address: 2980 McGee Trafficway, Kansas City, MO (google maps)
Approx. distance to Oak Tower: 3.25 km
The filling station is a coffee shop. It happens to have a very clear line of sight to Oak Tower (south side), might be a good location to collaborate with.
Hardesty and 17th
Approx distance to Oak Tower: 5.25km
Had line of sight around here? Don't have any notes.
Mutual Musicians Foundation
Address: 1823 Highland Avenue, Kansas City, MO (google maps)
Approx. distance to Oak Tower: 1.9km
Unfortunately, tower was completely occluded by City Hall at this location. FNF hopes to collaborate with the Foundation to provide mesh-local live streaming music (multicast? broadcast?) in the future.
Paseo Baptist Church
Closest address was 2501 Paseo Blvd.
This was the first site we tried. The line of sight is only to the south side of Oak Tower, but we were able to get a reasonable connection!
Data from July 6th, 2012 around 15:54 Central.
Link-layer connection strength (on tower-side radio) reported as:
Device Name: FNF_L01_3G01 Connection Time: 00:00:24 Signal Strength: -83 dBm Noise Floor: -93 dBm ACK/Distance: 44 / 1.6 miles (2.6 km) CCQ: - Last IP: unknown TX/RX Rate: 26.0 Mbps / - TX/RX Packets: 116 / 70 TX/RX Packet Rate, pps: 2 / 0 Bytes Transmitted: 26100 (25.49 kBytes) Bytes Received: 7782 (7.60 kBytes)
site survey:
MAC Address SSID Device Name Encryption Signal / Noise, dBm Frequency, GHz Channel 00:15:6D:3E:7A:C7 3.65 AP WPA2 -88 / -94 3.661 151 00:27:22:80:9D:D7 FNF_Distribution FNF_L01_3G01 WPA2 -87 / -94 3.661 151
bridge table:
MAC Address Interface Ageing Timer 00:1F:16:33:9B:D1 LAN 0.01 00:27:22:80:9D:D7 WLAN 0.08
School
TODO: can't remember the name or address of this school.
Large school on a hill with great lines of sight to the neighboring community, just barely can see the western-most windows of the south side of Oak Tower. Actually uncertain if there is coverage at all because tree cover meant that line of sight photo was taken several meters to the side of the school building itself. The building is quite tall and should have a clear line of sight over the trees.
Truman and Cypress
Closest address 4501 Cypress Ave.
We did a quick survey and signal check here. Generally clear line of sight to the east side of Oak Tower, a few lamp posts and power lines around.
Data from July 6th, around 16:33 Central.
Link-layer connection strength (on tower-side radio) reported as:
Device Name: FNF_L01_3G01 Connection Time: 00:01:17 Signal Strength: -69 dBm Noise Floor: -92 dBm ACK/Distance: 57 / 2.8 miles (4.5 km) CCQ: - Last IP: 192.168.1.20 TX/RX Rate: 78.0 Mbps / - TX/RX Packets: 91 / 52 TX/RX Packet Rate, pps: 2 / 0 Bytes Transmitted: 7888 (7.70 kBytes) Bytes Received: 6506 (6.35 kBytes)
Device Name:FNF_T01_3G01 Network Mode:Bridge Wireless Mode:Station WDS SSID:FNF_Distribution Security:WPA2 Version:v5.3 Uptime:00:01:46 Date:2011-01-14 14:43:43 Channel/Frequency:151 / 3661 MHz Channel Width:20 MHz ACK/Distance:57 / 2.8 miles (4.5 km) TX/RX Chains:2X2 WLAN MAC:00:27:22:80:9E:D1 LAN MAC:00:27:22:81:9E:D1 LAN1/LAN2:100Mbps-Full / Unplugged
site survey:
MAC Address SSID Device Name Encryption Signal / Noise, dBm Frequency, GHz Channel 00:27:22:80:9D:D7 FNF_Distribution FNF_L01_3G01 WPA2 -72 / -94 3.661 151 00:15:6D:3E:7A:C7 3.65 AP WPA2 -93 / -94 3.661 151
bridge table:
MAC Address Interface Ageing Timer 00:0E:83:92:CA:D5 WLAN 1.61 00:1F:16:33:9B:D1 LAN 0.02 00:27:22:80:9D:D7 WLAN 7.62
Park/Hill
Closest address was Saint Paul's church.
Excellent visibility of Oak Tower (east side) and the entire downtown sky line.
This is where we did testing the final day (July 8, 2012) around 10:30 Central.
IMPORTANT NOTE: we were hot and lazy and left the downlink radio lying in the grass on the side, so it's very possible that we should have been able to get better signal quality. Also unfortunately we were in a rush and didn't get a chance to log in to the radios to measure their reported signal strength and estimated throughput to compare with "actual" measurements.
testmy.net bandwidth through long link and single qmp mesh hop:
:::.. Combined Test Results ..::: Download Connection:: 4461 Kbps or 4.4 Mbps Download Test Size:: 33.7 MB or 34509 kB or 35337011 bytes Download Speed:: 558 kB/s Upload Connection:: 1923 Kbps or 1.9 Mbps Upload Test Size:: 5.8 MB or 5983 kB or 6126840 bytes Upload Speed:: 240 kB/s Tested At:: http://TestMy.net version:12 Test Time:: 2012-07-07 11:30:24 Local Time Validation:: http://testmy.net/db/vUfEmdh.s0NV2wW User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.151 Safari/535.19 [!]
wget through long link and single qmp mesh hop:
bnewbold@ziggy:~$ wget http://www.freenetworkfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ftn.webm --2012-07-07 11:30:57-- http://www.freenetworkfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ftn.webm Resolving www.freenetworkfoundation.org (www.freenetworkfoundation.org)... 69.195.131.30 Connecting to www.freenetworkfoundation.org (www.freenetworkfoundation.org)|69.195.131.30|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 29728710 (28M) [video/webm] Saving to: `ftn.webm.1' 100%[======================================>] 29,728,710 847K/s in 33s 2012-07-07 11:31:31 (877 KB/s) - `ftn.webm.1' saved [29728710/29728710]
ping through long link and single qmp mesh hop:
bnewbold@ziggy:~$ ping www.freenetworkfoundation.org PING freenetworkfoundation.org (69.195.131.30) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from www.freenetworkmovement.org (69.195.131.30): icmp_req=1 ttl=61 time=4.87 ms 64 bytes from www.freenetworkmovement.org (69.195.131.30): icmp_req=2 ttl=61 time=4.55 ms 64 bytes from www.freenetworkmovement.org (69.195.131.30): icmp_req=3 ttl=61 time=4.79 ms 64 bytes from www.freenetworkmovement.org (69.195.131.30): icmp_req=4 ttl=61 time=3.27 ms 64 bytes from www.freenetworkmovement.org (69.195.131.30): icmp_req=5 ttl=61 time=4.95 ms 64 bytes from www.freenetworkmovement.org (69.195.131.30): icmp_req=6 ttl=61 time=4.77 ms 64 bytes from www.freenetworkmovement.org (69.195.131.30): icmp_req=7 ttl=61 time=3.96 ms ^C --- freenetworkfoundation.org ping statistics --- 7 packets transmitted, 7 received, 0% packet loss, time 6008ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 3.273/4.455/4.959/0.576 ms
traceroute through long link and single qmp mesh hop:
bnewbold@ziggy:~$ traceroute sniffles.rooter.is traceroute to sniffles.rooter.is (50.116.57.44), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 node1cd.lan (10.10.6.1) 0.511 ms 0.472 ms 0.451 ms 2 10.10.5.1 (10.10.5.1) 2.751 ms 2.748 ms 4.524 ms 3 10.185.0.1 (10.185.0.1) 7.702 ms 9.173 ms 9.827 ms 4 69.195.131.25 (69.195.131.25) 18.376 ms 18.368 ms 20.383 ms 5 EDGE2.KCMODATACENTER.COM (96.43.134.37) 20.362 ms 21.250 ms 21.679 ms 6 gige-g3-2.core1.mci2.he.net (216.66.79.13) 22.230 ms 19.105 ms 19.064 ms 7 10gigabitethernet1-4.core1.mci1.he.net (184.105.213.1) 19.044 ms 6.934 ms 7.244 ms 8 10gigabitethernet6-1.core1.chi1.he.net (72.52.92.1) 19.391 ms 19.391 ms 19.373 ms 9 10gigabitethernet3-3.core1.tor1.he.net (184.105.213.149) 41.467 ms 44.985 ms 42.950 ms 10 gw-nac.torontointernetxchange.net (206.108.34.38) 57.913 ms 57.904 ms 58.249 ms 11 0.e1-2.tbr1.mmu.nac.net (209.123.10.118) 52.306 ms 53.518 ms 50.986 ms 12 vlan801.esd1.mmu.nac.net (209.123.10.10) 50.443 ms 50.956 ms 51.451 ms 13 207.99.53.42 (207.99.53.42) 63.412 ms 40.979 ms 39.868 ms 14 rooter.is (50.116.57.44) 46.111 ms 45.771 ms 41.763 ms
ping through long link only:
bnewbold@ziggy:~$ ping www.freenetworkfoundation.org PING freenetworkfoundation.org (69.195.131.30) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from www.freenetworkmovement.org (69.195.131.30): icmp_req=1 ttl=63 time=2.15 ms 64 bytes from www.freenetworkmovement.org (69.195.131.30): icmp_req=2 ttl=63 time=2.07 ms 64 bytes from www.freenetworkmovement.org (69.195.131.30): icmp_req=3 ttl=63 time=1.90 ms 64 bytes from www.freenetworkmovement.org (69.195.131.30): icmp_req=4 ttl=63 time=2.21 ms 64 bytes from www.freenetworkmovement.org (69.195.131.30): icmp_req=5 ttl=63 time=4.51 ms 64 bytes from www.freenetworkmovement.org (69.195.131.30): icmp_req=6 ttl=63 time=2.99 ms ^C --- freenetworkfoundation.org ping statistics --- 6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 5006ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.903/2.641/4.510/0.905 ms