No one mentioned the part at the bottom:
"In addition to Long Beach, the Bay Area Wireless Regional Network in San Francisco this week plans to switch on its first experimental access point atop San Bruno Mountain, in the southern part of the city. The network should make the Internet available over roughly an eight-mile radius to users with special antennas.
The Bay Area wireless group is a hobbyist experiment, run by just four volunteers with a donated Internet connection, but the project illustrates the low costs of wireless networks based on the industry's 802.11 wireless standard.
According to Tim Pozar, a radio engineer who is one of the leaders of the experiment, the group will spend about $2,000 to install the system and will increase capacity by adding low-cost antennas.
"In general we believe the Internet is a ubiquitous medium that is a basic tool that should be available to as many people as possible," Mr. Pozar said. It's a slam-dunk and very easy to do."
Tim, how are you getting the bandwidth up to there? And, what kind of antenna are you using?
alistair
At 16:08 06/01/2003 -0800, raines wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/06/technology/06WIFI.html?ex=1042434000&en=e aa61d6f7ab5829b&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND>More Cities Set Up Wireless Networks >By JOHN MARKOFF > >SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 5 � Add urban renewal to the growing list of reasons to >deploy wireless computing networks. > >The city of Long Beach, Calif., plans to announce on Friday that it will >make free wireless Internet access available in its downtown area as part >of an effort to attract visitors and companies to the business district. >The city will use the increasingly popular standard known as Wi-Fi, which >lets personal computers and other hand-held devices connect to the >Internet without wires at high speed. R -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
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