Chad, Tom, all- Wow. I am sorry for causing a flame uprising on the list.. I just wanted the pretty maps.tcwug.org to come back online. My apologies. Wowzers. There are still strong feelings among the group after all this time. Great! I am interested in the behind the scenes aspect of setting up a wifi network. I am uninterested in email debates, just want to see a face to face meeting of like-minded, or similarly-minded people that want to play outdoors with stuff. That's it. -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