If companies like Linksys (Cisco) and others would make their Access Points with enough intelligence to allow both local PC usage and an anonymous and fairly transparent "transfer node" while configuring the AP, that would allow both local PC usage and local "leaf" connectivity as well.
And of course the GUI and configuration wizard must be idiot proof and super easy to use. Ease of use applies to the success of any new system, WiFi or otherwise. Your thoughts? Guy I think that you might be missing my point about the ASN. I'm talking about a viral internet, where the mesh grows without central control. So it may well be that there is no authority that actually purchases the ASN. In fact ideally not. Ideally extending the reach of the internet is just a matter of plugging in a box that has line-of-sight to at least one other node in the wireless mesh. And then the next person and so on. Perhaps we should be looking to the P2P networks at how they handle these problems. There must be similarities. >> setting up multihoming is hard enough when you are a big corp >> or an ISP and you can isolate the borders. I'm talking about an >> (inter)net with a potentially ever-expanding edge, where leafs can >> turn >> into nodes > That's what the Internet is, and it works fine, and it's not hard to > do. > If you think it's hard, god help us if you try to make it easier for > us by > changing protocols. It may not be hard for an network engineer. "Not hard to do" isn't good enough (at the individual scale) it needs to be trivial. simon -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
