Frank, I have personally done this before. My hi-tech landlord had a partial T-1 pulled clear to Walterville, out in the country. I lived in a mobile 330' away. He said if I could engineer it, the link was free to me. I used a dlink 530 DWL (?) (PCI adapter card) with a detached antennae. I put a 2 dimensional linear parabolic reflector behind it in a plastic box outdoors on one station. On the other end I used another similar but rather an AP (7100 ?WL). I carefully pointed them at each other and obtained a 68-73% signal strength with a very IMPRESSIVE throughput ! I used a trick of using the "a" band instead of "g", to avoid interference from 2.4?Hz (radar oven) and "others" on the band. The only differences between this and a wireless home network is the frequencies, distance of 330 feet, and a clear LOS ( Line OF Sight), Oh signal strength is actually amplified so beware of being too close I believe. I successfully used this layout for 2 years. I still have that hardware mothballed. It was easy to do after I figured it out. after others doubts I could pull it off, I DID! Jay ***I believe for a mesh the MIT antennae would work better perhaps. It was spendy then in 2003, but now should be cheap. The obstacle for many is the legal aspects of ISP or "the middleman" licensing (x) # of nodes of an total amount ((n) slice) of bandwidth to a broadband port or something like that. I notice that the initial access point source (eg. Comcast) of the Afghani project is not obvious. To make this to legally work for EUGLUG for instance we would have to have a contract to ???? One of us suggested there is a cap on how many people can be on a home network of WINDOWS? Perhaps the Electronic Freedom Foundation or someone can be of help. I am curious for no immediate reason about all of this, except for increasing government and corporate control over our OPEN COMMUNICATION and ACCESS to INFORMATION GLOBALLY. The open source community may be the only way to be FREE! JAY Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:38:02 -0500 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [Eug-lug] open source low cost mesh networks [Was: Re: help!--NOT! different topic, but goody] Jay Perini wrote: Feel free to edit and/or trash. Back to that discussion about a grid/mesh/dist internet network we all were having a few months ago. This is really cool recent development. Go TO: http://www.fablab.af/fabfi/ It is a MIT open source project being used in Afghanistan and Kenya. Very cool DIY, cheap, and fascinating "can-do" solution. Linux. Please would one of you properly post this and start a thread on ITPro forum and EUGLUG if you deem it worthy. Thanks, Jay Very nice, thank you Regards Fred James _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/eugL
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