hi Viggy, Our next meeting for the San Diego Wireless Users Group (SDWUG) is on this very topic (setting up community wireless networks)! If you're not in the neighborhood, we stream all of our meetings LIVE. I'm attaching the meeting announcement below. See http://www.sdwug.org for more details...
Good Luck! -Lee ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 21:16:55 -0800 (PST) From: Lee Barken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SDWUG] >>AWESOME<< Meeting Next TUESDAY!! Ever thought about providing wireless broadband to your neighbors? Come and hear one tale of ups and downs about un-wiring a set of nine houses from our own SDWUG member, Michael Mee! Michael will provide an overview of where he legally found internet access, the various equipment he tried, discarded and finally kept for the base station, and the gotchas he encountered hooking up disparate computers in various configurations. See pictures of boxes with flashing lights and colored cables. Play 'network administrator' and hear how many Kazaa sessions it takes to drown a 620x128k DSL connection. The strange tales of wireless range, cantenna building and Linksys Wet-11 woes will have you sitting on the edge of your seat. The perils of providing (free) 24x7 access and somehow leaving for a two week vacation will have you rushing out to 'try this at home' - not! Hear grand visions of "Wireless Co-ops" based on nothing more than a sense of civic duty and nice hill view of 200+ houses. Finally, pause, reflect and ponder: do I really want to know my neighbors this well? Date: Tuesday, March 18th, 2003 Time: 5:30PM-8PM (presentation starts at 6PM!) Location: Vortex Data Systems, 7480 Mission Valley Road Map: http://www.vortexdata.com/map.htm Food and Beverages will be provided (Donations Welcome). Note: We stream our meetings live! More info at http://www.sdwug.org _______________________________________________ SDWUG - San Diego Wireless Users Group http://www.sdwug.org To unsubscribe: http://sdwug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless_sdwug.org On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, viggy wrote: > Hi, > > I was pointed to this group when I inquired about setting up high speed internet > access in Los Altos Hills (most of which is served only by dialup access :-( ). The > questions are: > > a) Have any of you setup such networks to distribute an incoming T1 connection to a > base station (house)? > b) Is there a set of resources one can access to try and such setup? > c) Are there any such networks in the LAH area that I might become a part of? > > > Thanks in advance. > > Viggy Mokkarala > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ================== -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
