--- Nick Arnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's not quite as wonderful as you hoped... we're on the other side of > Homestead from you, about .8 miles south, at Rose and Las Palmas. > > The other guy I know nearby and I are more interested in some kind of > meshing to minimize network downtime, and perhaps offer some higher > peak > bandwidth. I'm not sure that we'd want to share 1.5 mbits with 18 > other > people, either!
Well unfortunately, unless you have a business-class DSL line or T1, you're still sharing at some point along the lines, whether it be with other neighbors on your street or other streets connecting in your CO. But I do see your point. And 18 people on 1 T1 line is nothing unless their all downloading large files at the same time as you, then I can see it getting congested a bit. I'm doing business from my home and a 1.5/768 > downstream > DSL line sometimes gets loaded fairly heavily. On the other hand, a T1 > in > the mix would add a measure of reliability, I'd imagine, since we're > all on > the same telco CO, which means that it's quite possible that a single > DSLAM > problem could knock us all off at once. > > I did the NetStumbler thing today, finally, and found that there are > more > than a dozen APs within a block of here. Only a few of them are > encrypted; > at least three were happy to give me an address via DHCP. I have not done this yet, but I am thinking of buying an antenna just to find out what's "out there" first. So I *could* > do > some "meshing" on my own, it appears. One of the accessible ones even > gives > me a decent signal from my rooftop using a simple homebrew Yagi. > > All that said, two non-technical issues are foremost in my mind. One, > I > don't particularly want to become a WISP and I'm not sure I'd want to > trust > someone without experience to be mine, either. Well, this would not be a wISP per se. It would not be a business but a non-profit organization that is setup for providing wireless services. I'm sure there will be a few speedbumps, but I doubt we'll see any roadblocks. Let's see who else in the area might be interested. -- Matt Two, with meshing, the > liability issues get sticky if someone violates the AUP of somebody > else's > connection. > > All *that* said, it sure would be nice to get a bunch of people around > here > to hoist antennas up to a reasonable height, attached to inexpensive > boxes > that would configure themselves into a mesh network. I know that there > are > things like that coming, but not sure what's going to be practical > soon. > I'm willing to share, especially if it improves my uptime and peak > bandwidth. > > Nick > > -- > Nick Arnett > Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Matt Almgren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 1:24 PM > > To: Nick Arnett; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: [BAWUG] Co-op in Santa Clara ? > > > > > > 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 > __________________________________ 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
