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. 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