Someone needs to approach CSU Hayward about antenna and bandwidth donations, as they have the absolute BEST building in the entire Bay with coverage to ALL areas. Since they "lease" antenna space to TCI Cable for a whopping $1.00 per year, in exchange for free cable to the classrooms (which no one uses anyway) getting a community wireless network attached to their immensely underused backbone should be a cinch!!
Jeff Neithercutt CNA, GSEC Wells Fargo Bank Corporate Information Protection 155 5th Street MAC 0186-030 San Francisco, CA. 94103 (415)243-5549 -----Original Message----- From: Nick Kralevich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 7:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [BAWUG] Downtown San Jose Access Point Hi All, A friend of mine rents some office space on the top floor of the Bank of America building in Downtown San Jose. This is the tallest building in San Jose. http://www.skyscrapers.com/english/worldmap/building/0.9/118602/index.html I'd like to approach them, and see if I can convince them to donate some space for an antenna. Perhaps it could be used as a hub for a wireless network for downtown San Jose. However, the big problem is bandwidth -- the office only has a DSL connection, and that wouldn't be enough bandwidth to service others who might want to use the connection. Does anyone know a source of low cost (preferably free), high speed bandwidth that has line of sight to the Bank of America building? I'm trying to find about 3.5 Mbps of bandwidth (the maximum 802.11b speed) or more (think 802.11a). Again, this is all tenitive -- I've never even talked to my friend about this, nor the building owner. I'm just putting out feelers to see if anyone's interested. Thanks! Take care, -- Nick -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
