Actually, by using 'smarter APs' and routing protocols such as OSPF, it might make some sense. must define if you want to build a full replacement for last mile networking, or just last mile augmentation...
-----Original Message----- From: Lile Elam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 9:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [BAWUG] A business plan Interesting! I was just talking with a french hacker tonight discussing a wireless underground network. The idea would be to create a wireless network that spanned an area. This network would have 1 gateway to the Internet which all could use. The problem comes with how to do such a thing... Can AP's be used together to create such a network? It does seem kind of silly to have each open access AP having it's own DSL/T1 like uplink and have everyone paying different ISP's for Internet access... not to mention being pretty costly overall. I like the peering idea though. Would an open source / free software project want to be on a wireless underground network? Could we do something in a distributed way so that if the uplink went away, these projects would still be accessable? I guess having mirror sites would solve this issue but then that would take away the advantage of peering with the underground. Hum... Interesting to think about while having a cup of java. :) BTW, art.net's wireless network is now open and free for the public to access. We are running wide open though so there is no WEP... so you will want to use SSH. -lile hacker artist lile.com -- 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
