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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello tcwug,<BR> <BR>I am hoping for some
advice with my latest scheme. <BR> <BR>What I want to do is get
broadband connection and share it with potentially 100-150 users in my townhome
community. You could call it a cooperative effort to get affordable
broadband. We have three units per building and all buildings are within a mile
radius. Each building is wired with new C5 for phone purposes, single
location on out side of building for all three units. We would like the
broadband come into one building and share with other buildings via
wireless. The building-to-building network would be wireless and the
unit-to-unit wired. We would like to set this up like an ISP so that we
could control bandwidth and restrict usage to those in the community that
contribute to the cost. <BR>Could anyone give me some advice?
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<DIV><BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hardware -<BR>What kind of hardware will we
need from Internet to Client? Can you recommend any particular access points or
repeaters? Can you recommend a vendor for these devices? Cost?<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Broadband -<BR>What can we get by with?
T1? Any cost estimate here?<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Software-<BR>Access control is an issue, as
well as billing. Does anyone know of any good software, preferably open
source or inexpensive that can do the trick here?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>I appreciate any
input! Thanks everyone!<BR> <BR>Tom
O'Neill<BR>tommyo@dolemite.org<BR>http://www.dolemite.org</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>