Ditto, 'cept I am a conservative Democrat. I would have been a
Republican if I were born 100 years or more ago. lol.
Certainly some of us tend to get a bit wired over a little
humour.......
If the City of Eugene wants wireless, they'll need to pony up
some antenna and tower friendly building codes, 180 degrees
from the overly restrictive ones now in place, help us by
providing low cost big bandwidth and ask US what kind of
equipment & standards, etc.
Here's some thinking fodder:
a) Who will pay for service and how much will they (we) pay?
b) Who will provide ip blocks, dns & routing? (without a packet
forwarding protocol like ax.25 we would NEED some centralised
hubs, routers, etc.)
c) Who will pay for the bulk bandwidth, equipment locating, siting
fees/rent, licenses, permits and accounting costs?
d) who will locate, maintain and install equipment?
Here's an idea......how about making agreements with local isp's to
locate equipment and provide bandwidth to luggers in exchange for
our expertise in getting THEM wireless savvy?
I have many years experience in RF networking, have some nifty
tools for designing & locating sites (does anyone want a PCS
network?). I'd be happy to lend what I can, but I want some
cheap gear and cheap bandwidth out of the deal. Some folks
have PC's to spare and maybe a few $$ for wireless gear and
I wouldn't suppose they would necessarily want to give those
up for naught either.
I would rather not see those 2.4GHz wireless nic's all over the
place...they're unreliable over distance and are designed for
occasional notebook use, not bandwidth hogging desktops.
Better would be point to point or point to multipoint distribution
and even better are full-duplex hard links.
jk
At 08:13 AM 2/27/2001, you wrote:
>OK, sorry if I offended anyone or wasted precious bandwidth/diskspace
>by going off on a political tangent. I consider myself a liberal,
>although not a Demopublicrat. As such, I wanted to point out that
>name calling is a two way street. Aparently, I'm not as eloquent as
>Mr. Crandell. Thanks Bob.
>Anyway, as it would be hard to argue that a wireless network would infringe
>on someone's religous beliefs, maybe we should all go to the next City Council
>meeting and ask the City for its blessing to install a network downtown.
>I've also heard through the grapevine that several civic leaders want Eugene
>to be thought of as the "Greenwich Village of the West". MAybe if we could
>dress up the antennae as some kind of high class art, the city would even kick
>in some funding.
>
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