How expensive are the freq shifters? Every client would also need one, correct? Add the cost of a wireless card + antenna + shifter up & it may be less attractive. What is the reason for needing to shift out of the standard 2.4Ghz band? (sorry if I missed this & am asking a dumb question)
Brad > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael JasonSmith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2003 3:54 PM > To: linux users > Subject: Re: Linux Distros on Campus - Wireless? > > > On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 16:36, Don Gould - BVC wrote: > > Hummm... you can't lease space on 802.11abg frequencies... > it's public > > spec > > space. > Quite right. That is why the frequency shifter is needed to > move it off the public frequencies. > > > Hummm.... shouldn't be. Wireless sites in AU get sub 10ms > ping times. > > Gaming is one of the main reasons they do it over there. > Neh, maybe I am wrong. It frequently happens :) Maybe they > would flood the network and collisions cause everything to > stop. I recall something being bad... > > > > External Internet charges will also remain at their > current levels: > > > �1.5/MB for national traffic, �8/MB international. > > > > Ouch that hurts! Is that really want the uni is paying for > data?!?!? > More or less. I have seen the books and it is operating at > break-even. > > > Why is the uni paying for volume anyway? The size of the > place they > > should be on a fix pipe. > With fixed volume you get people (not looking at COSC or ENG > postgrads in particular) downloading stupidly large files > (Fellowship_of_the_Rim.avi @ 732MB, The_Two_Titties.avi @ > 750MB, Return_of_the_Kink.avi @ 726MB) and taking up most of > the pipe. Volume charging allows the University to fairly > spread the cost over all the users. (I am the student rep on > the University IT Committee, and I am willing to go > hand-to-hand to defend volume charging.) > > > > Oh, and you would have to be a Canterbury Tertiary > Alliance student > > > or staff-member to use the system :) > > > > That bit is just 'wrong' in my view. What happened to open > > networking? > The University has *never* run an open network. It is not an > ISP and has *no* intention of becoming an ISP. The wireless > network is being investigated to give students access to > course material, not access to the Internet. > -- > Michael JasonSmith > http://www.ldots.org/ > >
