And what might the famous "Internet backbone" be? I think what you want to say is that each connection should be a transit connection (i.e. a connection that is sold to ISPs, where the ISP can do whatever they want). You buy transit connections from other ISPs (even though not necessarily the same ones you would buy your connection). However: 1. It is more expensive 2. It usually is sold only in pretty big units (read hundreds of Mbps nowadays), which makes that very expensive 3. It does not include the local loop or anything (it is delivered in one of the usual colocation places, not to your home or office)
Hence my previous suggestion (or was that on the nycwireless list?): setup a co-op, buy transit, and wholesale DSL services. That amounts to being your own ISP, in short. Or find an ISP that is willing to cooperate. But in general those tend to be there to try to make money :-) Jacques. At 22:22 27/06/2002, Ken Leisten wrote: >It seems that for these "mesh networks" to become viable for commercial use or >otherwise,each AP would need to have direct access to the inernet backbone. >Not a residential or business connection through an ISP. If ISPs get >ticked-off enough or scared enough they could easily yank the plug on your >internet access and it would be within their rights. Wether it clearly says >"no sharing or redistribution" in your subscriber agreement or not it seems >clear that the intended use of any ISPs service is on a per subscriber basis.I >beleive that this is the biggest threat to the future of interconnected wi-fi >that we have to deal. Setting up the network between APs is the easy part. >-- >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
