On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Ryan Wilkins <r...@deadfrog.net> wrote: > > On Feb 3, 2011, at 10:10 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > >> ---- Original Message ----- >>> What do you do when you get home to put it back on the air -- let's >>> say email as a base service, since it is -- do you have the gear laying >>> around, >>> and how long would it take? >> >> Focus on this part, BTW, folks; let's ignore the politics behind the >> shutdown. :-) >> > > So if I get what you're saying, I could have something operational from > scratch in a few hours. I've got a variety of Cisco routers and switches, > Linux and Mac OS X boxes in various shapes and sizes, and a five CPE + one AP > 5 GHz Mikrotik RouterOS-based radio system, 802.11b/g wireless AP, 800' of > Cat 5e cable, connectors, and crimpers. The radios, if well placed, could > allow me to connect up several strategic locations, or perhaps use them to > connect to other sources of Internet access, if available. If it really came > down to it, I could probably gather enough satellite communications gear from > the office to allow me to stand up satellite Internet to someone. Of course, > the trick would be to talk to that "someone" to coordinate connectivity over > the satellite which may be hard to do given the communications outage you > described. I wouldn't be so worried about transmitting to the satellite, in > this case I'd just transmit without authorization, but someone needs to be > receiving my transmission and vice versa for this to be useful. At a > minimum, I could enable communications between my neighbors. > > Regards, > Ryan Wilkins >
I agree that setting up "local" connectivity between the folks in my neighborhood wouldn't be too much of a challenge. Getting anything much beyond that up and running would be a stretch. -- Josh Smith KD8HRX email/jabber: juice...@gmail.com phone: 304.237.9369(c)
