Chad, all- Now we are talking! I am interested in creating a backbone point-to- point network using some of the sites that this group previously surveyed on Moos and other sites. I think it would be fun to create a high-speed wide-area-coverage network that could be used for anything; including letting the users offer a route to the internet on it. I am interested in: - Installing the sites, rooftops, equipment for an Wifi network to cover the urban city first, then the surrounding suburbs. - Acquiring sites on the cheap. - Metrics from someone else that shows that our network is being used for stuff. - Setting up "event" local hotspots that tie back to the rooftop sites "backbone?" for events like Taste of ... Acquentennial, Gay Pride, whatever-community-event-here. I am less interested in, but would cheerlead my support for: - Acquiring equipment. - Setting up everyone's home wifi ap. - Setting up and maintaining perminant wifi AP's (non-events). ...Anyone share my interests, or need some cheerleading? The above is what I would like to discuss at a future meet-up. -matt -- ----- Matthew Genelin Fast Computer Service Co. 612-605-5382 2010 E. Hennepin Ave, Suite 8-122, Box 1 Minneapolis, MN 55413-2760 fastcomputerserviceco.com On Jul 1, 2009, at 10:52 AM, Chad Walstrom wrote: > I would have to agree with Tom regarding Chuck's reaction to a public, > decentralized, mesh-network. I'm entirely willing to give some of my > bandwidth up for free; I'm paying for it. I don't expect to make > money > on it. I know that there are some college students in nearby house > that > are probably leeching off me anyway. > > Failover for loss of my upstream is a very good reason to adopt > community mesh-networking. If there was another person in the > neighborhood willing to provide upstream, and enough people using the > mesh networking protocol, should my upstream go down, we could still > get > out to the internet. I don't know why this would be a bad thing. > > Anyway, still interested in pursuing this. > > Chad > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Wireless Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. > Paul, Minnesota > tcwug-list at tcwug.org > http://mailman.tcwug.org/mailman/listinfo/tcwug-list