Today we all went to the Nindiri plateau to take VLF and micro gravity readings and I managed to setup the BGAN to perform various tests.
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Masaya Volcano: Day 4
Today was a very productive day regarding the taking of readings with Hazel’s team and was a very busy one.
Masaya Volcano: Day 3
Today due to not feeling the best I remained at the hotel which started off slow but as it progressed a rather productive day was had regarding ERA.
Masaya Volcano: Day 2
The best intentions I had of blogging at the end of the day seems somewhat difficult to achieve due to the reasons covered in today’s personal blog section. Therefore at best expect an update as and when they arrive!
Masaya Volcano: Day 1
My intention is to post one blog a day separated into three sections, ERA, iPhone and Personal, in order to cover all aspects of my trip to Masaya.
Video Connectivity
Yesterday and today I have been testing the procedures for connecting over wired and wireless networks to live video streaming and static image transfer. Below are details of my journey starting with live video streaming over a wired network without 3G and then over 3G.
Wired Network (no 3G)
The equipment being used is a Billion wireless-N/3G ADSL Router, two Eee PC netbooks, a MacBook Pro and a an EDIMax IC-3010WG dual mode camera.
Iperf – Measuring Bandwidth
The following procedures should be used to test the bandwidth on all connects types in the field prior to performing any other tests to establish the quality of connection.
Full details on what Iperf is and how to use it can be found here. The tests can be performed via the Terminal or the GUI interface both of which give the same results but the GUI provides a useful visual representation to aid interpretation of results.