Some of us in Corvallis started down this path. But we bogged down and failed to maintain momentum. I don't think the technical details were the problem. We had hardware picked out. And there was a likely candidate software. One issue that cropped up was getting a high enough density of participants that we could form a net, rather than a bunch of disconnected nodes. We figured we could beam a signal close to a mile, but that wasn't always enough, especially when the terrain was not flat. Another issue was that if we were viewed as an ISP we would have legal issues to deal with. Of course there was also the issue of allowing others to connect to the net thru our home internet connection. Our ISPs might look askance on that.
All of us still like the idea. Perhaps we just didn't have enough passion to make it happen. -- Allen Brown http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/ It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it. --- Albert Einstein ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicholas Chase" <[email protected]> To: "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 10:25:51 AM Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Community wireless? I'm pretty busy with finals but don't let me stop you guys. I would love to hear about what y'all come up with. I want to learn more about the freedombox project too, which aims to have mesh routing baked in. On Mar 14, 2011 10:20 AM, "Michael Miller" < [email protected] > wrote: > I'm interested in this as well. The problem has been getting some > organisation and standardization. I.E. what 802.11 mesh protocol and > how to do long distance links. Maybe we should have a lunch meeting > sometime during the week for anyone interested? > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 2:21 AM, Jackman < [email protected] > wrote: >> I've been trying to get a cuwin-like mesh network going, but a lack of >> funding has been an issue. I pushed it to my employer as a way of generating >> revenue, but they aren't convinced its secure. I am really excited about >> getting involved in a public mesh network, far more so than the 'free wifi' >> indexes I've seen on the internet. >> >> On Mar 14, 2011 1:38 AM, "Nicholas Chase" < [email protected] > wrote: >> >> Is there an group like personal telco (a community wifi group in >> portland that runs free wifi nodes) in eugene? If not, there should >> be. Who's with me? >> >> -- >> Nicholas Chase >> _______________________________________________ >> EUGLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug >> >> _______________________________________________ >> EUGLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug >> >> > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
