News and Events

Today Thursday 22nd June 2006 SimplyWifi confirmed an 8.8Mile Wi-Fi link using standard 802.11b hardware, with one end having an antenna giving 25db antenna gain, and the other end with 15dB antenna gain. using -5dBm Transmit Power we achieved what we have only read about for the last 3 years!

I am Proud to announce the ability to offer service almost anywhere in West Sussex for Fixed Wireless Solutions.

Visit http://www.victory4wifi.co.uk run by Phill Hills who is part of the Devils Dyke NET Team and now involved with Simplywifi.co.uk.
Phill has a photo album with some pictures of us up at the Devils Dyke Hotel doing the install and maintance - see the hardware that can supply upto 8mb internet connections locally. and upto 2mb 5-10 miles away where line of site is possible.

Access to www.devilsdyke.net and www.simplywifi.co.uk wireless SSID can be gained and CONFIRMED 20 mins away in a car. . down the back country lanes past the Devils Dyke, Poinings, and surrounding areas. If you can see the Devils Dyke Hotel, or the Hill it sits on then call 07963779438. Noting calls will not be answered after 9pm.

New Node in Findon yesterday. . helping the link into the center of Findon Village!. John Henrys now has more connectivity now

14/05/04 - Nodes have been popping up for the last month! 3 New in total. all with limited Free Internet! where not installed for a user

Today we completed the Washington node install, it all went well, plugged the box in to the already installed antenna and turned on, it just about worked first time. Thanks http://www.phillhills.net/ for the helix cable, antenna, loft space for the node and the nearly no loss of .2db in the cable. a good line of site to Devils Dyke with possible links soon.

Phil's website is where it all started for the Devils Dyke Node.

May - Internet @ LUNA

We installed our first FREE NETWORK ACCESS NODE, at LUNA in Montague Place and what a lovely place it is, caters for about 40 people I think!

Do you want a good meal out with friends? then LUNA is the place in Worthing West Sussex!.

And now you can sit on the pier in Worthing and surf the Internet, or on the Beach ;) shops wanting nodes to spread the connection quality should contact simplywifi.

Devils Dyke - National Trust - www.devilsdyke.net AKA bubsworld, we all live in our own world

Three weeks ago we installed our first outdoor dual SSID node up at Devils Dyke Hotel over 670foot above sea-level, free access to the internet is supplied there.

01/04/06 www.webrental.co.uk SSID became www.simplywifi.co.uk

Findon Wireless network - covering the valley and village with 2 ADSL connections into the network. Five MeshAP cover the area.

03-05/01/06 01:00 - Work on network continues

Every night since Monday upgrades to the Access Controller have been made, hopefully users haven't noticed the changeover from user files to the much faster MySQL Database backend.

If you experience any problems with the network then there is a contact form on the www.simplywifi.co.uk , please use it to make contact or ask questions about your account. It should be available at all times so long as the wireless and internet connections are up and working.

Software and routing changes will continue for the next week, then we should see a freeze in system status! And begins the uptime  counters current record stands at 107 days between upgrades.

02/01/06 02:08 - New Welcome page 

I'm up late it was new years day! Users will notice that something changed on the Access Controller, we turned on the welcome page function to marry up with the new website, account status, usage logs and more will be available very soon.

01/01/06 - Happy New Year - All systems working since 8mb line was fixed on the 24th December

New Website is up and running, it only took an entire 2 years and re-registration of the domain before the service was finally ready for the launch of its www address. Now were just into 2006 and what better time to launch the online presence, SimplyWifi.co.uk has been supplying Wireless Internet since 2003 starting on a shared 1mb ADSL line, we now have 3 ADSL Lines and bandwidth to spare.

24/12/05: BT Fixed the two 8mb ADSL lines- customers will be happy to know we are now on the new 8mb.

We are working on bonding both 8mb connections to give the backbone of SimplyWifi.co.uk 16mb in and 1.2mb out of the network. next phase involves the use of MESH technology - more importantly the use of AODV Routing, for those not in the know that is "Advanced On Demand Vector" Routing as used in the MESH System from Locustworld.