What?

The Wireless Battle Mesh version 3.1416 aims to test a network of 30 isolated routers with different routing protocols, in a countryside environnement (cows, trees, pastures, and forests).

When?

Friday 4, Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 September 2010.

Where?

Florenville, South of Belgium, next to French border, next to Luxembourg.

Who?

Responsible organisator: Benjamin Henrion (zoobab), bh@udev.org, +32-484-566109

Hosting

Zoobab is organising the event at his parent's place, which offers a large area (50 ares) where you can put your tent, with electricity, an ethernet cable, and showers and toilets facilities.

The house also offers enough indoor place to sleep (bring your floor matelas and sleeping bag).

Transport

• Train: Florenville is easily reachable by train (Take the Line Brussels-Luxembourg, change at Libramont, and take the small train to Florenville-Virton); note that there is also the possibility to go to Marbehan, and ask for car pickking up in advance.
• Road: Florenville is at 1h30 of Brussels if you drive fast on the E411 highway. Go out at exit number XX at Neufchateau, and take the road number XX in direction of Florenville.

Goal

• Install a mesh testbed of 30 nodes (fonera based) (zoobab owns 10 of them)
• longshots: Florenville-Arlon Longshot 36,5km (10 Apr 2003 18:45) - Longshot between Florenville (Waveguide 32slots placed on the church tower) and Arlon (Yagi of XavierVL). Distance 36,5km. Data transfert of 50ko/sec during 5 minutes but we didn't succeed to do the same after, we were quite disapointing... We think that the fresnel zone was not so good to realize a good link. Some pictures here.

Beer

The abbaye of Orval is at 6km from the main city of Florenville, and produces one of the best trappist beer of Belgium, and of the world, since there are few trappists.

Maginot

The Maginot Line was a defense line of France built in the 1930ies between the World War I and World War II. It was easily defeated by the German army at the beginning of the World War II.

It can provide high points with good line of sight for longshots and other wifi and antenna tests.