On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 10:35:22 +1300, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > WirelessWeb had a temporary hookup at the meeting last night. > WirelessWeb is a commercial ISP utilising 802.11b technology. [snip] > This gave me an IP address, netmask, dns server in /etc/resolv.conf and > a default route. (as you would epect dhcp to do, but you never know with > a new service until you try...) The address I got was in the 10.5 > private range and I guess this is because I was behind the router the > guy had set up on site earlier in the evening. Actually there were two > wireless connections going on here > > laptop<-->router<---->Cashmere hills? laptop<-->router<--->wirelessap<-->hishouse<-->Cashmerehills<--->Then To a Isp with 45mbit backbone ;)
> When you join you pay a $495 connection fee (including a site checking > fee of $100) which gets you a flash aerial and mounting, some cable (not > cheap!) and some sort of wireless router (brand unknown). Senio Router IIRC It is 200mw Client AP. And IIIRC they use a 24dbi Parabolic Dish > end up with an ethernet connection to plug into your computer. This > accepts connections via PPPoE, so you can either just connect one > windows/mac/linux/bsd/? computer to it and connect direct to the net, or > you can connect, say, an ipcop box or a router and use its PPPoE client > to share it around your house/business/neighbourhood. -- --Ben Devine
