[nycwireless] NC court rejects BellSouth's ploy to own all broadband

[Rob Kelley]

Hey hey!

"BellSouth lost again Tuesday in its fight to stop the city of
Laurinburg and a Fayetteville company from providing high-speed
Internet access in Laurinburg."

http://www.ecorridors.vt.edu/news/topic/?article_id=123&cat_type=topic&cat_id=3

judgement here:
http://www.aoc.state.nc.us/www/public/coa/opinions/2005/040145-1.htm

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[nycwireless] Reminder - NYCwireless Meeting Tonight (Wed 1/26), Next Gen Wireless Mobility Software

[Ben N. Serebin]

Hello All,

Just another reminder for our NYCwireless meeting tonight, Wed 1/26.

Speaker: Art Lancaster, CTO of Affinegy LLC, http://www.affinegy.com
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Topic: Next Generation Wi-Fi Mobility Software and Wireless Security
Best Practices Made Easy

BIO of Speaker and Company

Affinegy is an Austin, Texas based software company that provides
software to broadband/wireless service providers, networking equipment
vendors, and directly to end-users to help make wireless and broadband
networking connections easy and secure. Art is a co-founder and CTO of
Affinegy since March of 2003, and was previously with Motorola for 10
years developing broadband and networking products. He has an MSEE from
Univ. of So. Calif. and an MBA in 1999 from the University of Texas.

http://www.nycwireless.net/nycw_newsevents.html
 

Date / Time: Wednesday, January 26th at 7:15pm

Meeting Location: Bway.net, 459 Broadway, 2nd Floor.

About 2 blocks north of Canal, near the corner of Grand St. On the west

side of the street, then up one flight of stairs. Via subway (Canal

Street stop): the J,M,N,Q,R,W,Z, and a bit further, but still on Canal

is A,C,E,1,6,9.

-Ben

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[nycwireless] Re: Doing a Residential Freenet (in NYC or anywhere urban)

[Adam Vazquez Kb2Jpd]

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Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:28:47 -0500
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Subject: [nycwireless] Freenets in NYC ?
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Is there (and I am certain there is, I just don't know who has done it in
NYC) anyone with experience in setting up
A building wide freenet amongst apartments ?
I would like to organize internet and perhaps VOIP amongst a few neighbors,
and see if we can expand this to
Our building in midtown Manhattan. Right now my WiFi sees a lot of people
with WiFi boxes (Linksys usually) in range.
Seems a shame that we should all have separate cable, telephone, and IP
connections...
It is a lot of work to setup ? Has anyone done it ?
Are their legal issues this up and bypassing the cable/phone companies in
our building ?
Cheers!
Dr. D B Karron
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Hi there from Adam Kb2Jpd
I am a NYC urban dweller and something for some reason I can't really 
explain, a ham radio amateur.

For a residential building Freenet installation, you will have to 
consider several aspects.

One will be the care and feeding of the access point or access points, 
by human means and by the Internet.How you will get Internet access to 
it will be another design decision you the implementer will have to make.

Getting a phone line up to  the  top  of a building can be a remarkably  
difficult and expensive  dilemma. In a 35 story building, I had to 
temporarily hijack a elevator,with the consent of the super, and run a 
direct phone line up the elevator shaft from the basement to the top of 
the building. For my trouble, Verizon sent my a bill for $1000 for a 
installation I had done myself and that for my hard-earned trouble and 
expense their "professional installers and technicians" had poorly cut 
and spliced into my cable. Thankfully, I bought a good spool of plenum 
wire with plenty of extra conductors. I let my partner ream them a new 
butthole.

Another aspect would be how you will want to "limit" the signal to the 
actual property. As an installer  of several internal building repeater 
systems, my suggestion is if you have  access to the central top floor 
of the building, get a WiFi antenna with directional characteristics and 
have it point the signal or radiation straight up and down thru the 
edifice.  What is the style of construction used in the building? If you 
are blessed with wood, the microwave signal will go right thru it. If it 
is metal and concrete, you may have to install satellite APs in each 
hallway for optimum signal . Another way to solve that particular 
problem would be to have two access points ,one on the top floor and 
another one on the bottom floor. Get two Yagi-style antennae or 
Cantennas and have the bottom point up and the top point down. Use 
different channels please.

Legalwise: If you decide to use RoadRunner cable modem, as in Manhattan, 
for your Internet access, they may not be too pleased with you reusing 
their "product". Other internet providers would not be such tight-wadded 
and closed minded.

Well, I am out of steam. I am available for comment if you need some help.
Adam
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