[silk] no Delhi get-together tonight...

2008-02-14 Thread Brian Behlendorf
...the conference has Plans, and I kinda feel obliged. Plus I'm leaving tonight rather than head to Dharamsala; too many commitments back home have gone unaddressed. But I'll be back sometime soon. Brian

Re: [silk] Internet access for senior citizen in special care facility

2008-02-14 Thread ashok _
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: Does this sound feasible ? Is there a better way of doing this ? What you've outlined seems unreliable without someone to support it, is there skilled help available? the senior citizen's son (no young man himself) lives in the

Re: [silk] no Delhi get-together tonight...

2008-02-14 Thread Valsa Williams
Brian we really enjoyed your visit and hope you did too ! See you again soon !! Valsa On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Brian Behlendorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...the conference has Plans, and I kinda feel obliged. Plus I'm leaving tonight rather than head to Dharamsala; too many

Re: [silk] Internet access for senior citizen in special care facility

2008-02-14 Thread Venkat Mangudi's Silk Account
If you can buy an old WRT54G that can use DD-WRT firmware, signal can be boosted or two of them can be used for repeating forming a kind of mesh if u know someb ody who lives between the two places. I understand WRT54G-L can be used similarly. Tons of info about this on the Net. On 2/14/08, ashok

Re: [silk] Internet access for senior citizen in special care facility

2008-02-14 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 05:52:15PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: If they are just 250m apart, string Ethernet or something across the rooftops. Contact your local cablewallah, he can do that without too many Uh, no galvanic separation. This will fry your end points in no time. Might

Re: [silk] Internet access for senior citizen in special care facility

2008-02-14 Thread ashok _
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: If they are just 250m apart, string Ethernet or something across the rooftops. Contact your local cablewallah, he can do that without too many issues, knows the right cops to pay off etc. this is in a European country so the

Re: [silk] Internet access for senior citizen in special care facility

2008-02-14 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 14-Feb-08, at 5:51 PM, Venkat Mangudi's Silk Account wrote: If you can buy an old WRT54G that can use DD-WRT firmware, signal can be boosted or two of them can be used for repeating forming a kind of mesh if u know someb ody who lives between the two places. I understand WRT54G-L can be used

Re: [silk] Internet access for senior citizen in special care facility

2008-02-14 Thread rene
Hi All, (not sure if I'm allowed to post to the list, so cc to Jace) the right way was mentioned, just get yourself a cheap but good directional Antenna. Forget everything about signal boosters, they are usually crap and will damage the signal and the whole spectrum more than they will help.

Re: [silk] Internet access for senior citizen in special care facility

2008-02-14 Thread ashok _
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 8:10 PM, rene wrote: the right way was mentioned, just get yourself a cheap but good directional Antenna. Forget everything about signal boosters, they are usually crap and will damage the signal and the whole spectrum more than they will help. Use a directional