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| − | We tried | + | We tried September 2008 the first time to use DMX over Wlan in Klangwolke of Ars Electronica in a professional show - 5 stations, one on a moving boat on the river, the rest with a minimum of 200m and a maximum of 1 km. |
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| + | To reduce network traffic and for security reasons we decided to take 5 ChamSys MagicQ Consoles with the possibility of wireless remotes - as router we took 5 Buffalo WHR-HP-54G - flashed with DD-WRTv24 and WDS - I tried this two weeks before and had quite good signal between the 1 km (of course we changed the default Antenna to professional Yagis). | ||
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| + | After setup nothing worked - WDS did not work at all - our needs are client to client, not client to Internet - the signal quality shown in the webif of DD-WRT was good, but I had no connection between the MagicQ Consoles. | ||
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| + | Ok - I changed from WDS to client mode, this worked, but extremely long delays (up to 6 sec), net sometime breaking down .... so what to do, 4 days left to the performance, where at least 30.000 people will come to watch the show. | ||
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| + | We found 5 new routers and run it with the original firmware of Buffalo - it worked somehow, delays was much better, but the moves of the movingheads was not smooth and the funny thing - in the night the signal was very good, but as soon as the sun arrievd, the signal was gone - so we decided to used it only for programming in the night and run the show | ||
Revision as of 11:13, 13 January 2009
We tried September 2008 the first time to use DMX over Wlan in Klangwolke of Ars Electronica in a professional show - 5 stations, one on a moving boat on the river, the rest with a minimum of 200m and a maximum of 1 km.
To reduce network traffic and for security reasons we decided to take 5 ChamSys MagicQ Consoles with the possibility of wireless remotes - as router we took 5 Buffalo WHR-HP-54G - flashed with DD-WRTv24 and WDS - I tried this two weeks before and had quite good signal between the 1 km (of course we changed the default Antenna to professional Yagis).
After setup nothing worked - WDS did not work at all - our needs are client to client, not client to Internet - the signal quality shown in the webif of DD-WRT was good, but I had no connection between the MagicQ Consoles.
Ok - I changed from WDS to client mode, this worked, but extremely long delays (up to 6 sec), net sometime breaking down .... so what to do, 4 days left to the performance, where at least 30.000 people will come to watch the show.
We found 5 new routers and run it with the original firmware of Buffalo - it worked somehow, delays was much better, but the moves of the movingheads was not smooth and the funny thing - in the night the signal was very good, but as soon as the sun arrievd, the signal was gone - so we decided to used it only for programming in the night and run the show
