That's really cool but I don't think one could convince any University to give a wireless experiment access to I2. What is the minimum connection requirement these days? I remember back in 2002/2003 it was OC-12.
-mmiller On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Nicholas Chase <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
