SCN: building wireless community networks

[patrick]

Joe,

Was this answered already? I've had a hectic day/week:

http://www.seattlewireless.net

There is not much to having a wireless network. If you have a WiFi or
Apple AirPort card installed in your computer, then get onto a DSL
connection, you can have about 50 people logging into your DSL
connection. That is it, more or less.

So it is a matter of organizing people to volunteer to have their
machine set up to be a wireless station while people can securely tap
into the pipe.

Patrick


--- Joe Mabel <jmabel at speakeasy.org> wrote:
> Sorry about the very delayed reply.
> Very cool stuff, indofar as I understand (which is admittedly not
> far: I'm a
> software guy, not very h/w knoledgeable).
> Obviously creating such a network would not be an endeavor for SCN
> as such, but
> is it possbile that somewhere under the umbrella of SCNA there
> might be room to
> start an interest group or something? Or is there something else
> already under
> way in Seattle that we could at least refer people to if they are
> interested?
> 
> --------------------
> Joe Mabel
> 
> On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, patrick wrote:
> 
> > New O'Reilly book out called Building Wireless Community
> Networks:
> >
> > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wirelesscommnet/
> >
> > Thanks to Apple, they have found a way to expand computing to new
> > horizons with this highspeed wireless networking to a cool, new
> > level. It's almost subversive, isn't it?
> >
> > Patrick
> > Seattle Community Network
> >
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