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I'd like to do that! SteveH > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 12:00:16 -0800 (PST) > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: nycwireless Digest, Vol 10, Issue 15 > > Send nycwireless mailing list submissions to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of nycwireless digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. astoria to upper east (S. Ryan Rzepecki) > 2. Beyond Wi-Fi: A New Wireless Age (fwd) (Anthony Townsend) > 3. Re: astoria to upper east (Anthony Townsend) > 4. Re: astoria to upper east (Daniel Thor Kristjansson) > 5. volunteer Graphic Designer needed (Anthony Townsend) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 20:57:49 -0800 (PST) > From: "S. Ryan Rzepecki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [nycwireless] astoria to upper east > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Hi.... > > I live in astoria about 100 yards from the east river. > I am on the fourth floor (top floor) of my building > and have perfect LOS to the upper east side from > approximately e77th to e100th. The northern tip of > roosevelt island lies in between me and the east side > (for geographical reference). > > I would like to test out some ap/bridge products from > buffalo tech and am willing to buy the equipment. > > Does anyone live on the upper east side with a view of > the east river and Astoria/Long Island City? there > are a boatload of hi rise buildings that would do the > trick. > > Also if anyone would like to lend their technical > know-how/time it would be appreciated. > > Ryan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. > http://photos.yahoo.com/ > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 09:36:43 -0500 > From: Anthony Townsend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [nycwireless] Beyond Wi-Fi: A New Wireless Age (fwd) > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 13:17:01 -0500 >> From: Dave Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: [IP] Beyond Wi-Fi: A New Wireless Age >> >> >> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 20:16:37 -0800 >> From: Dewayne Hendricks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> >> DECEMBER 15, 2003 >> >> SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY >> >> Beyond Wi-Fi: A New Wireless Age >> >> Three technologies will boost the capacity of our airwaves -- and >> innovation, too >> <http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_50/b3862098.htm> >> >> On the clear morning of June 10, Mark McHenry climbed onto the rooftop >> of a >> seven-floor office building near Washington's busy Dupont Circle. >> Lugging >> an unwieldy 10-foot antenna and a gray metal box, he and another >> engineer >> set up an experiment to measure the actual usage of airwaves above the >> Nation's Capital during peak business hours. >> >> They were out to debunk a popular myth: With the explosion of wireless >> devices, the air is nearly saturated with zinging TV, radio, >> cell-phone, >> and BlackBerry signals, right? Not to mention satellite and >> air-traffic-control signals, police dispatches, and mushrooming Wi-Fi >> networks. And yet, the duo found that even in a heavily trafficked >> part of >> the airwaves above the District of Columbia, only 19% to 40% of the >> spectrum was occupied at any moment during an eight-hour period. >> >> The experiment highlights a paradox that vexes the wireless industry. >> Although nearly all of America's best ready-to-use spectrum is rented >> out >> to tenants ranging from broadcasters to the U.S. military, most of the >> time, it's unused -- just vacant space. ``It's as though every >> operator had >> his own personal road to go to work instead of sharing the road,'' says >> McHenry, president of tech startup Shared Spectrum Co. in McLean, Va. >> The >> upshot: Wireless inventors with a new idea may not get access to the >> airwaves. >> >> As any of these inventors might tell you, however, momentous changes >> are in >> the air. Digital technologies have already allowed cellular operators >> to >> pack more signals into each band than they could under the old analog >> regime. Now, a wave of intelligent network technologies is sweeping >> from >> university and military labs into the marketplace. The innovations are >> known by various names, including smart antennas, mesh networks, and >> agile >> radios -- all of them sharing the same basic breakthroughs in digital >> signal processing. Together, they appear poised to knock down the lane >> dividers on the spectrum highway, which were devised about 75 years ago >> when federal regulators concluded that the airwaves were a scarce >> resource. >> >> Regulators are applauding the liberation of the spectrum -- especially >> after witnessing the meteoric rise of Wi-Fi. This wireless networking >> standard, and the ubiquitous Internet ``hot spots'' it has spawned, >> took >> off in the U.S. only because there was a swath of airwaves that >> regulators >> left open for unlicensed gadgets such as microwave ovens and >> garage-door >> openers. That's why the FCC is dismantling more fences. In >> mid-November, it >> offered up a new slice of lightly regulated frequency in the >> 5-gigahertz >> range. ``The more people who can play in the sandbox, the higher the >> probability of technological innovation,'' says Federal Communications >> Commission Chief Engineer Edmond Thomas. >> >> DUG-IN RESISTANCE >> Broadcasters, cell-phone carriers, and other longtime licensees of >> spectrum >> rights won't give up their exclusive hold without a fight. ``If we >> have to >> pay for spectrum and others can gain access to those very bands for >> free, >> it becomes a parity issue,'' says Brian F. Fontes, vice-president for >> federal relations at Cingular Wireless. Still, engineers, inventors, >> and >> their financial backers are sure to keep up pressure on the FCC to use >> the >> airwaves with greater efficiency and imagination. Together, new ideas >> about >> intelligent devices and novel network architectures will open up a >> wireless >> frontier. Here's what the engineers have in mind: >> >> Smart Antennas: When the first AM radio tower went up in 1920 at KDKA >> in >> Pittsburgh, the proud antenna on top beamed out signals 360 degrees >> around >> it. Like a pebble thrown into a pond, it sent energy indiscriminately >> in >> concentric ripples through the air. >> >> What a waste, say many engineers today. If you could throw all that >> energy >> in just the direction of the users you want to reach, the signal could >> travel much farther and avoid unnecessarily jamming airwaves in other >> directions. With a ``smart antenna,'' a narrow beam shoots a greater >> distance in the same way that a water hose sprays farther when the >> gardener >> puts a thumb over the nozzle. But that doesn't capture the >> intelligence of >> these systems. Wireless consultant Nitin Shah prefers the analogy of a >> spotlight following individual actors on a stage, as opposed to a room >> light that illuminates everyone. >> >> There are many approaches to such antennas under study at universities >> and >> corporate labs -- including a commercial product from San Francisco >> startup >> Vivato Inc. By clustering 128 pencil-size antennas, Vivato can project >> signals as far as 2.5 miles. They achieve this by squishing a tiny bit >> of >> energy -- roughly 100 milliwatts, or half the power of a cell phone -- >> into >> narrow seven-to-eight-degree beams. Each antenna, starting at a >> different >> moment, sends out its own signals on regular radio waves. When the >> waves of >> one start waning, those of another might be cresting. Taken together, >> these >> waves can form rays specially shaped to reach a particular target. >> With the >> help of software, the antennas can change the shape and direction of >> these >> rays at a moment's notice when targets move. In this way, Vivato >> expects to >> extend the range of Wi-Fi, currently limited to about 300 feet. ``Smart >> antennas are the future of spectrum sharing for wireless,'' says Greg >> Raleigh, CEO of Airgo Networks Inc. in Palo Alto, Calif., which makes a >> more complex extension of this technology. ``Ten years from now, >> they'll be >> in every wireless device.'' >> >> Mesh Networks: Just as smart antennas free up more airwaves than >> traditional towers, a new routing technology makes even today's most >> efficient digital networks look like spectrum hogs. With cell-phone >> systems >> today, for example, users must be within the range of a cell tower, >> also >> known as a base station, to get a link. The cell tower is the central >> hub >> connecting the phones around it. >> >> With so-called mesh networks, one transmitter can get a connection >> from the >> antenna next to it, even if neither is in the range of the hub. All >> that's >> required is a connection between users, circuitous or not, that leads >> to a >> hub -- which may be an Internet access point or a cell tower. To >> explain >> this idea, engineers often invoke the analogy of a crowded cocktail >> party. >> Instead of shouting across the room to tell your spouse it's time to go >> home, thus drowning everyone else out, the guests transmit the message >> person by person in whispers across the room. >> >> In the case of mesh networks, each device -- whether it's a laptop >> computer, as in most prototypes today, or a futuristic cell phone -- >> becomes the equivalent of a base station or network hub. As soon as >> one of >> the devices is switched on, it puts out a signal announcing its >> presence >> and searches for signals from others. Once the newcomer finds a group >> of >> networked devices, it knocks on the door, and the others welcome it to >> the >> group. True, wired Internet switches achieve the same effect. But the >> challenges multiply in the wireless world, where changing topography is >> ever a threat. If a building goes up across your street, a mesh network >> would spot the obstruction and route itself around it. >> >> Various companies have experimented with ad hoc networks like these -- >> so >> far, without much commercial success. For one thing, the demands of a >> mesh >> network can drain everyone's batteries. Even if your laptop doesn't >> want to >> communicate across the network at the moment, it ends up being used as >> a >> hopping station for other people's messages. Despite that, Nokia (NOK >> ), >> Microsoft (MSFT ), Intel (INTC ), and others hope to use the >> technology to >> extend the range of Wi-Fi. And it's not just commercial ventures that >> are >> interested. In San Mateo, Calif., the Police Dept. is testing a system >> from >> a local startup, Tropos Networks, to connect laptops in police cars >> across >> the downtown area. >> >> Agile Radios: On the blue waters of San Diego Bay, engineers have >> implemented the first phase of an experiment that could lead to the >> biggest >> radio breakthrough of all. Twelve sailors on the USS Coronado, a Navy >> flagship, are testing a radio from General Dynamics Corp. (GD ) that >> can >> communicate in 10 different frequency bands. That matters because the >> military has access to many swaths of spectrum, but different branches >> of >> the Armed Forces use different radios, which often can't talk to one >> another. The gizmo on the Coronado uses software to transmit and >> receive in >> multiple frequences, thus breaking down the barriers. ``Think of these >> radios as a computer with an antenna,'' says John D. Bard, CEO of Space >> Coast Communication Systems Inc. in Melbourne, Fla., which is writing >> new >> radio software. >> >> AN ULTRASMART MACHINE >> The military's work in software-defined radio is the prelude to what >> many >> consider the ultimate solution for the wireless future: the agile >> radio. >> This device can hop in and out of empty spaces in the spectrum, >> operating >> in a variety of different bands, in spaces nobody else is using. The >> Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is funding the >> development of this ultrasmart machine, which would be able to scan the >> airwaves and determine the vacant spaces on its own. As other users >> pile >> into these frequencies, the agile radio would see the traffic and >> instantly >> seek out ``white space'' in other bands. >> >> It will take at least 10 years to create a workable agile radio, >> according >> to Vanu Bose, CEO of Vanu Inc, which is developing software-defined >> radios. >> For one thing, it must be smart enough to ensure that the vacant bands >> are >> indeed available, and not cause interference with existing users. ``We >> have >> to prove we can coexist,'' says Preston Marshall, DARPA's program >> manager >> for the agile radio. But if such a sensitive radio can be made, >> researchers >> say users can harvest up to 10 times more out of the airwaves. >> >> The lure of such bountiful yields has turned federal regulators into >> evangelists for these potentially disruptive technologies. At first, >> the >> FCC is likely to move slowly, releasing small blocks of spectrum that >> are >> under lease to the military and others. But once the dam is >> compromised, >> there is no stopping the deluge. On the flood plain, wireless >> innovators >> may realize their wildest dreams -- and citizens will gain access to a >> new >> frontier in the sky. >> >> By Catherine Yang in Washington >> >> Archives at: <http://Wireless.Com/Dewayne-Net> >> Weblog at: <http://weblog.warpspeed.com> > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 09:41:37 -0500 > From: Anthony Townsend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [nycwireless] astoria to upper east > To: "S. Ryan Rzepecki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > If you do set this up, it would be nice to leave it up, and revive the > Wireless Cloud project. > > > On Dec 15, 2003, at 11:57 PM, S. Ryan Rzepecki wrote: > >> Hi.... >> >> I live in astoria about 100 yards from the east river. >> I am on the fourth floor (top floor) of my building >> and have perfect LOS to the upper east side from >> approximately e77th to e100th. The northern tip of >> roosevelt island lies in between me and the east side >> (for geographical reference). >> >> I would like to test out some ap/bridge products from >> buffalo tech and am willing to buy the equipment. >> >> Does anyone live on the upper east side with a view of >> the east river and Astoria/Long Island City? there >> are a boatload of hi rise buildings that would do the >> trick. >> >> Also if anyone would like to lend their technical >> know-how/time it would be appreciated. >> >> Ryan >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 11:41:19 -0500 (EST) > From: Daniel Thor Kristjansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [nycwireless] astoria to upper east > To: Anthony Townsend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > > You might want to just use a message for your SSID > such as 'nycw-cloud - email srrzepecki_a_yahoo_com' > > Then people can try it without contacting you beforehand, and then > e-mail you if they get a signal. > > -- Daniel > << When truth is outlawed; only outlaws will tell the truth. >> - RLiegh > > On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Anthony Townsend wrote: > > ]If you do set this up, it would be nice to leave it up, and revive the > ]Wireless Cloud project. > ] > ] > ]On Dec 15, 2003, at 11:57 PM, S. Ryan Rzepecki wrote: > ] > ]> Hi.... > ]> > ]> I live in astoria about 100 yards from the east river. > ]> I am on the fourth floor (top floor) of my building > ]> and have perfect LOS to the upper east side from > ]> approximately e77th to e100th. The northern tip of > ]> roosevelt island lies in between me and the east side > ]> (for geographical reference). > ]> > ]> I would like to test out some ap/bridge products from > ]> buffalo tech and am willing to buy the equipment. > ]> > ]> Does anyone live on the upper east side with a view of > ]> the east river and Astoria/Long Island City? there > ]> are a boatload of hi rise buildings that would do the > ]> trick. > ]> > ]> Also if anyone would like to lend their technical > ]> know-how/time it would be appreciated. > ]> > ]> Ryan > ]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ]> > ]> > ] > ]-- > ]NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ > ]Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ > ]Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ > ] > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 12:54:31 -0500 > From: Anthony Townsend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [nycwireless] volunteer Graphic Designer needed > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > Hi - I need someone to help us design some window stickers to mark the > presence of free hotspots... > > This should be a rather quick project with minimal time commitments... > > thanks > > > ------------------------------ > > -- > NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ > Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ > Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ > > End of nycwireless Digest, Vol 10, Issue 15 > ******************************************* -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
