I love the university participation idea. Internet2, the university backbone, just announced they're upgrading from 100gigabit to 8.8 Terabits! On Mar 14, 2011 10:52 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
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