I have just spotted yobbo. A community wireless effort in Christchurch. http://yobbo.co.nz/WirelessCommunity.htm
I love the idea, now I need to sell it to the wife. Hmm. Hard. Except she is permanently pissed that Canty University is too cheap to provide 'net access as part of the course fees. I shouldn't wonder, given the fairly steep course fees, that many other Canty students feel aggrieved at this user pays gone psycho attitude. (especially when they realise that globally speaking, they are being "had") Now I'm trying to "connect the dots"... Wife needs access to the 'net at home and at Canty. Needs it portable so she can just slip in a CD and connect something to a serial port. (Opening boxes tend to make the local BOfH's nervous...) Something like http://www.datahunter.com/serialan.html would do. (I wonder how much they (or equivalent) cost?) Trouble is she couldn't carry a whacking great dish around so there would need to be a repeater on the Canty campus. She could then tunnel through to our home PC and thereafter on to the wild blue 'net. Or a node on the community 'net could serve as a gateway at some reasonable monthly fee. (And we could regain the use of our telephone again and dump xtra...) (Still I wish community wireless was more of a p2p system, rather than dependent on centralized nodes) Anyone else interested? -- John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand Every time you say you don't believe in Windows taking over the world, a Microsoft marketing executive dies.
