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Revision as of 17:06, 15 April 2009
- Who we are (and are not), and how we operate
- Cape Town Wireless User Group is not a club or official organisation, but a research network.
- Most decisions are made by general consensus at group meetings, and by committee members.
- Anyone is able to attend these meetings, regardless of whether they are active on the Cape Town Wireless User Group network.
- The group has a committee of Chairman, vice-Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer that preside over the regular meetings, generally held as indicated via the mailing list and shown on the website.
- Equipment donated to the group 'belongs' to the group (not any individual) except if otherwise stated by the committee members.
- Private Node operators who own their equipment are bound to act according to the Code-of-Conduct outlined here.
- Network Access
There is one class of membership to the Cape Town Wireless User Group. All users are equal (==), meaning no user will have traffic priority over another user. This class is called:
Wugger
- Wuggers will have full access to the network without any bandwidth restrictions except where necessary for the health of the network or network segment.
- Wuggers can vote at the group's meetings, these include any resolution that affects the organisational or financial aspects of the group in any form.
- A Wugger is connected to the network and utilising what the network has to offer.
- Wuggers may donate money to further assist in growing and expanding the wireless network.
Donations may be used to fund new CTWUG equipment, constructing/erecting CTWUG high sites as well as maintenance on current CTWUG owned high sites.
Donations to further the network are open to all
- Behaviors and Responsibilities
Be kind to the backbone: The increased bandwidth (speed) offered by the current wireless technology can quickly be eroded if users aren't considerate of others.
- To this end
- If you are going to download files via Bittorrent/FTP/DC/gnucleus/kazaa or other download applications from someone else on the network, please consider other wuggers if the total transfer is going to take more than a few minutes.
- P2p and any other bandwidth hogging services will be vulnerable to traffic shaping during gaming hours (19:00 – 00:00). In the event of traffic prioritising on high sites, p2p and other bandwidth hogging protocols will be subjected to the lowest priority there is available, and gaming subjected to the highest.
- Where availability and lack of obstacles permit, point your antenna towards a node in your neighborhood in preference to the major high sites. This assists traffic management on the network. The major high sites will quickly become saturated if everyone aims his/her antenna in that direction.
If you point to a local node, only traffic that needs to be sent to the rest of the network will go through backbone links.
- No wugger will have the privilege of connecting to a backbone link; backbone links are there to interconnect high sites only.