Yeah I could totally see a University doing that.  I just don't see it
happening with Internet 2.  That is what I was hinting at.

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Nicholas Chase
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
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