On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:40:34AM -0800, Ben Barrett wrote:
> It seems sane to try to enforce a minimum bandwidth to maintain
> available, assuming the net is "up" -- say 5 or 10 kbps??
> that way, most folks would realize that dialup is not so bad,
> and the new wireless net would not get flooded by residential
> users... but its PLENTY fast for a telnet/shell connexion.
Well, you could perform some access control via MAC addresses, so this wouldn't be
much of a problem. The ideal situation would be to have a server with a wavelan nic in
it (boosted somehow), performing NAT and DHCP services. 10kbps would probably be too
low. The first thing I would do is monitor client's bandwidth usage and give friendly
reminders if the pipe starts bogging down. If that doesnt work, then maybe cap
bandwidth off at 56k (remember people probably wont be using that 56k 100% of the
time). I mostly want it for text-based stuff, so I could work from the coffee shop,
ssh'd.
> When you say, "get UO to support it", do you mean having them give more
> of their Internet^2/OC3???
> I think they're very gracious as it is; there are few universities
> that do not REQUIRE authentication just to surf...
> And their wireless coverage DOES reach off-campus!
> What are we asking for?
> I'm asking for the right to share my connection at home --
> UOnet's policy, afaik, does not allow that.
When I said "get UO to support it", I suppose I really meant "see if they'd be
interested in being involved in it". They have a rather outstanding Networking group
there, and I'm reasonably certain they'd probably be interested. I'm thinking more in
"line of sight" needs, and perhaps "expensive gear" needs that they may even already
have. How far off-campus does their wireless stuff reach? From my experience, its only
been a block or two.
jakob
