The hop may be difficult, the Broward Club may have a node at the 110 tower.  With a little bit of amplification and reconfiguration of the antenna that hop may be viable.  Your hop to downtown should be viable now it the 110 nodes exists.

Ralph

Let's ask the FCC about music on hold.

§ 97.113 Prohibited transmissions.
(a) No amateur station shall transmit:
(4) Music using a phone emission except as specifically provided elsewhere in this section; . . . [exception not relevant, here]

It looks like music on hold is legal if you are not using a phone emmission.

By the way,

§ 97.113 Prohibited transmissions.
(a) No amateur station shall transmit:
(4). . . obscene or indecent words or language; . . . [most rap fits here]

is not restricted to phone emmissions.

Sounds great mike! The more nodes we get up on the air, the better! I see the value in this technology, however am still confused as how contacts are made/what we can do with it. Are we essentially building a large network like in a house that I can share files on between computers? I will probably start small as well due to being in an apartment, and not having real estate to put up a high powered node. Thinking though I could put one up on the back deck with a high gain antenna, and maybe get through all the buildings/trees to KD2DLL's node in Rotterdam.

Hi Guys;

Still having problems to communicate keyboard to Keyboard, I'm using the Opera Browser that has chat with it. Anyone has the experience using this browser with the Chat cliient. Got to routers programmed with firmware 1.0

Both routers see each other but I'm not sure how to use the Chat Client, Need help any video from youtube or something.

KP4RV - Rafael

Newbie of Mesh  

I am glad to hear that fixed the problem! Your problem is in Windows. 5 Host Direct is nothing more than a 5 Host DMZ. So that rules out the mesh as it passes all traffic from point A to point B.

Look at setting up a Samba or FTP Server on a Linux machine if you want to share files between Windows PC's. It takes no more than 30 minutes.

Ok, that did fix the ping issue. So it is a problem in windows 7? I started with a ping as first line troubleshooting. I must not be doing something right. I am trying to share files using SMB (windows file share) by typing \\Ip-address\ it won't find it. From what I have read the PCs should be straight on the mesh and should be able to connect in the same way as if they are on the same node. Sorry still learning any thoughts?

So I just reproduced the same problem you had over here. Typing "netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8 enable" in an elevated command prompt window on the computer fixed the problem.

If it helps I did a tracert and got this:

C:\Users\admin>tracert autolog-pc

Tracing route to autolog-pc.local.mesh [10.102.152.178]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms localnode.local.mesh [10.166.98.225]
2 2 ms 1 ms 2 ms kd8rbh-00.local.mesh [10.12.211.22]
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 * * * Request timed out.

Then it sounds like a firewall issue that could possibly be blocking the request. Let me try some things out over here and get back with you.

Thanks for the fast reply! I had disabled the firewall for testing and set them to windows "home network" type. If the Laptop and PC are connected to the same node they can ping each other. I should still be able to ping it through the other node. Right?

That is not a problem with BBHN. Windows 7, by default, blocks ICMP echo requests (which are needed for pings). Doing a quick search yields this:
http://www.sysprobs.com/enable-ping-reply-windows-7