Today was a glorious day. The weather was warm, but not too hot. It’s Saturday, which meant we did not have to work too hard yet on our projects and most important, we are here! Even so, I got to work today on some small item things.
- Installing Antenna for Compound WiFi
One of those items is the wireless network at the DWT compound. Last year when I was here, I found that a wireless system that some folks from Australia had install previously was not working. It turned out that the access point unit that they supplied had failed. It was a special type of unit that attaches directly to an antenna that is mounted on a pole out side the DWT office. Although I got that same access point unit for them, I found that is just did not have the signal strength I was looking for. After doing some research I decided to use a different type of access point along with a 4 watt signal amplifier. I configured it and tested it at home first. It looked promising to me, so that’s what I brought. Apparently the previous setup did not do that well in penetrating through the brick and stucco structures here at the compound. So today I installed the new system we brought. The good news is that it’s working much better than the previous system. It is definitely doing a good job of getting through the think walled buildings and even reaches down to the new guest house and hostel. They might need an internal repeater or two in the future, but this is definitely a good start. In the afternoon we went down town to Kasulu Bible College and delivered the new equipment for there network.
For now we are just storing it there. We plan to get to work installing it on Monday. I did take a little bit of time to reconfigure one of there network access points, which was not working correctly for them, so that is now fixed. Next will be to get the rest of the existing access points working correctly and their campus network should be back in action.
- Preliminary WiFi amplifier install
Tomorrow morning we will worship at the cathedral. No doubt we will have a chance to speak to the congregation and sing a song or two. It should be an awesome time with them. I can’t wait.
So lets look back at the last few days in pictures. I hope you enjoy the sites and views our our trip so far.
Bill
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So we made it. We are now in Kasulu. It’s been a wonderful couple of days along Lake Tanganyika, but I’m really glad to have arrived at our other home. Kasulu is like that for us. It’s feels like home. There are so many people we know in the community.
The day started out nicely with breakfast at the hotel and a brief wait on the gazebo for our driver Christopher to come and take us to Kasulu. The drive takes a couple of hours and a good portion of the drive is over dirt roads, so it’s a bit bumpy, but we are used to it. As we arrived the staff of DWT were all waiting in the compound entrance singing and waving flowers and branches. It’s a typical greeting we have come to enjoy during our travels about in Tanzania. Because of our ongoing relationship with the diocese staff members it’s always extra special for us.
This year we are staying in the German Missionary house, but we think of it as Andrea’s house. Andrea is the full time German missionary who we have written about in our blog’s from previous years. Andrea is gone for a week, but she should be back while we are still hear. It will be great to see her. I admire her for the work she does here and look forward seeing her again soon.
Tomorrow I will do a little bit of work at the DWT office, installing some new wireless network equipment and then I think we’ll spend some time at Kasulu Bible College. That will be good because I have a lot of photo’s and video’s I’d like to post for you to see, but up in the compound, the cell signal is only good enough upload text and a photo or two.
Thanks again to all who have been praying for us during our journey. It means so much to us to have that coverage.
Blessings and good night to you all.
Canon Bill