It could be he meant internet (note: lowercase ' i ' ) to mean its basic
term of network of networks, which could also have one or more paths to
the (big ' I ') Internet.
</devils advocate>

A large scale wireless network is difficult to manage. Also licensed
frequencies are so much better to use in terms of signal interference
but they cost non-zero dollars.
I am not suggesting you quit trying but it will take a serious effort
(read: lots of time) to actually deploy and maintain on an ongoing
basis. This project is only passively interesting to me personally but I
have no problems offering up moral support and assist on any periodic
troubleshooting requests sent via the list here.

On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 17:09 -0600, Tony Yarusso wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Samael <samael.anon at gmail.com> wrote:
> > fcc opend up bandwidth for public use.  we could make a wireless mesh
> > network consisting of multiple antena and start our own internet.
> 
> Yes, technically you *could*, but just how much usefulness would a
> network with just you on it have?  No access to your bank, Freenode,
> mn-linux.org, Google, etc.  "Critical mass" and "economy of scale" are
> pretty important concepts here.
> 
>  - Tony
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