SCN: building wireless community networks

[patrick]

Doug,

What type of connection or system do they propose or support?

If no DSL or cable connection, what type of set-up?

Patrick
--- Doug Schuler <douglas at scn.org> wrote:
> 
> I don't know a lot either...
> 
> I did attend the wireless community networks "summit" last
> Sunday down in Georgetown.  They had people from the UK,
> NYC, Portland, the Bay Area, etc.  Mostly hardware talk but
> the Bay Area guy (see www.bawug.org) presented a
> network that he had set up at Burning Man.  I gave a tiny
> presentation in which I mentioned that I thought the 
> social side was *very* important and not to be neglected -
> what are these netowrks *FOR*??  Some of the people I
> talked to said that they were originaly interested in 
> the hardware but have now come to appreciate the social
> implications.
> 
> I get the impression that the Seattle group is among
> the most ambitious and most organized but this may be
> just an impression.  I've asked them to conduct a
> "Wireless 101" at the May CPSR conference.
> 
> As for the connecting loads of people to the Internet
> via a shared DSL my recollection is that the people at
> the summit advised AGAINST that idea.  This helps promote
> the idea that this effort is a hacker/pirate effort.
> 
> -- Doug
> 
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> On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, patrick wrote:
> 
> > 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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