What about the campus? As of now, they have some limited form of wireless for the students however it's dependent on each of the schools (The Engineering dept has their own as well as the Business Dept.)
But then again...there's always the issue of bureacratic bullcrap.... For instance, Jazzland Coffee wanted to build a wall to block the elements (wind mostly) and it would have just cost them roughly $600 to do it themselves but the state (SJSU) jumped in and now it'll cost 2-3 million. Talk about the $300 hammer and the $600 toilet seat. G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > This Downtown San Jose network sounds promising, as > long as the following can happen. > > "Must obtain roof rights" > "Must obtain cheap or free bandwidth" > > I am the owner of Streakwave wireless, and if others > could make it happen I will donate a few Sector antenna > to the project. > > Regards, > Carl D Moberg > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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
