I don't know what that means, but I think it's only fair that the community that puts up with their immature, drunken college students gets something out of the deal. I know another college (can't remember which) is providing wimax to the neighbouring community. Why not? On Mar 14, 2011 11:26 AM, "Michael Miller" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
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