Wow! We're practically neighbors! :) Unless you are on the other side of San Thomas or Homestead. I'm within 100' of Nicholson and Robiero. Just driving around I have seen a few grid antennas pointed towards the West, but not sure if they're connecting to anything or not.
Currently, I just got a wireless card and small antennae, along with my own wireless network at home, but I have been doing research and it looks promising. I'm just throwing around numbers, but getting about 20 neighbors at $50/month would eaily cover the cost of a T1 line. (I checked already and they run about 550 for 2yr aggreement with local loop, router, and included installation) to my house. I can see more rooftops than that from my house. The hard part I see is just getting people involved and finding a cheap way to install the client antennaes. I've looked around at other community co-op web sites and it CAN be done with the right planning and marketing to people. Or getting them to dump Comcast at 49/month and go wireless. :) This something that I definitely want to look into and get feedback from others, especially if you live nearby and know of possible problems, ideas, etc.... - Matt --- Nick Arnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt, > > Where are you, exactly? There are a couple of us near Homestead/San > Tomas > Expy who are thinking of pooling our access, mainly for reliability, > but who > knows... And I keep meaning to cruise the neighborhood with > NetStumbler to > see who else might be able to participate. > > -- > Nick Arnett > Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matt Almgren > > Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 3:10 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [BAWUG] Co-op in Santa Clara ? > > > > > > Does anyone know of a co-op or cheap WISP either starting or already > > formed in Santa Clara ? Not the county, but the city. If so, please > > send me any pertinent information. I am familiar with BARWN, but it > > doesn't seem to stretch that far down into the south bay. I'd like > to > > get involved with either helping with network infrastructure or just > > being a client. > > > > Thanks, > > Matt > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > > -- > > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
