"Let me explain my viewpoint, if I may. You and many other individuals and small businesses have Access Points that have connection to the Internet. Because many (people) do not use bandwidth to its capacity, default connections could be listed in an automated system where your laptop would automatically switch from one WLAN to another seamlessly. It might be feasible to have a massive wireless network where an AP from one house bridges to an AP at another."
Sort of like that. A big wireless underground network, if you will. Good idea. I wish someone would write a plan for it. We would all need Access Points that have bridging capabilities. Elliot -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Lile Elam 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
