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How to connect?

We explain in these lines, which are the procedures to be able to connect inside Barcelona from your location.

Before anything else, we remind that the previous step to have connection to Internet is the preinscription that may be done through the Preinscription form or physically at the Infoespai.

For the connection to the free net, no preinscription is necessary –although we recommend it if you require our technical support -, only the connection through a booster node; because of that en these case the following information on cases, photos and coverage tests are also recomended.

Thus, to be able to prepare the enrolment of a user it is necessary to check if there will be connectivity with a booster node.

To do that we have established 3 typical situations, which are detailed in the first subsection of this page.

    1. First case: You already have physical visibility to a main node from the roof.
    2. Second case: You are in a neighbourhood with main node, but you don’t have visibility from the roof.
    3.Third case: You are in a neighbourhood with no main node installed yet.

It consists on knowing which is your case. The first way to check it is confirming visibility through sending us photos and the second way is to do a coverage test with a router and an antenna.

These two techniques for checking are also detailed in the subsections of this page.

On the other hand, in general therms, we give you some considerations, to complete the information: The main nodes of the wireless cooperative network are named (essid) “xsf-coop.net”. The connection to Internet, requires of a user and password, that we will provide you once we confirm there’s connectivity and once registered in the cooperative.

For any information or question, write to info@xsf-coop.net or call 93 390 72 36.

Possible situations

Send photographies

Coverage tests

Typical situations

Typical situations to prepare the enrollment in the net

1.First case: Those people who have physical visibility to one main node of the net, and a distance lower that 1km, can already connect yourselves from now on.

To do so there are two basic ways:

a) If you have an access point at 2.4 Ghz and of the type 802.11G or you want to buy it and do the installation by yourselves. In this case, contact with us and we will provide the information and technical support necessary so you can do the installation.

b) If you want a professional to come to do the installation for you. In this case we put you in the queue of foreseen installations and in a few weeks you will have connection in your building

2. Second case: Those people who are in a neighborhood with main nodes but who have no direct visibility with a node, have to connect from the roof and check if there is coverage.

a) If you have or if you can get an access point at 2.4 Ghz or a computer with wireless card then you can do by yourselves the coverage tests, from the home balcony/window or going to the roof. From Infoespai we will try to prepare and leave “kits” with access point + antenna so you are able to do the coverage tests with the same quality the installation should have. If the coverage tests are favorable you will turn to be ins situation of type number 1.

b) If you can not check if you have coverage, tell us and we will put you in coverage checking list, to come in a few weeks to do it.

3. Third case: Those people who are in a neighborhood without a main node, provisionally, you can still connect, but you have to contribute to the arrival of the net to your neighborhood as soon as possible, in the following manners:

a) Telling it to other users in your neighborhood, so it can be more viable for one of them to become main node and several users to connect to it.

b) Finding a tall building, in your area, that we can choose as a good main node, no matter if by the moment there are not too many users

c) Achieving the necessary funding to install a main node in your neighborhood, so although there are not many users, it doesn’t have to mean a cost that damages the overall viability of the cooperative network.