On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 07:27:36AM -0500, steve ulrich wrote: > > >matthew- > >very nicely done. in looking at the nodes it looks like we have a few yes matthew. very nicely done indeed. >places where we might be able to have some overlap but it looks like >as we had suspected we're pretty well spread out. i think the best >hopes we have of getting cooperative node links are between my >(pending) second node and AAA and jack who is also in the area. yes yes yes. my current radio is an smc2652.; I need to get an external antenna mounted in the near future. Does anyone know off hand the type of connector I need for the smc end? All the same I would like to use something else for this project, like maybe a linux box doing hostAP. >it seems to me that there might be a couple of different ways to skin >this cat. if we're keen on the wired hotspot mode of operation we >might want to see about getting more people interested in our >activities here. this has the added benefit of getting us more >potential access point locations. > >in order to minimize the pain of doing this for people we should make >it as straightforward as possible which brings us back to the cookbook >configuration concept. > >the other way to skin this cat seems to be to find locations where we >can put up hub nodes that have decent LOS to a few folks and see about >getting wired connectivity to these locations. > >other thoughts? > I see no reason why we can't skin all cats :-). I found a couple of nodes yesterday with an essid of PARK_01, and they were near a park that is close to me! Maybe someone is already thinking along these lines? > > -- --*--SpencerUnderground--*-- http://autonomous.tv/ spencer at autonomous.tv Key fingerprint = 173B 8760 E59F DBF8 6FD2 68F8 ABA2 AB08 49C7 4754 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tcwug-list/attachments/20020612/089b7544/attachment.pgp