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Community Wifi
Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 4:13 pm
by pthread
I don't know if anyone is interested, because of the drive, but some philly2600 members and others are going to have a meeting wednesday night, at 8pm. The meeting is going to discuss the possibility of creating some sort of community wireless network in Philly.
Anyone is welcome, no prior wifi experience required, just a willingness to learn.
PM me if you are interested in attending.
Re: Community Wifi
Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 9:20 pm
by Linc
pthread wrote:I don't know if anyone is interested, because of the drive, but some philly2600 members and others are going to have a meeting wednesday night, at 8pm. The meeting is going to discuss the possibility of creating some sort of community wireless network in Philly.
Anyone is welcome, no prior wifi experience required, just a willingness to learn.
PM me if you are interested in attending.
I can't amke it of course because I am doing the Tech Show. HOWEVER, PLEASE do us a favor if you can and RECORD it (audio) if possible and send to us for inclusion of audio snippets on the Tech Show! (please remember to get permission from those you record)..
Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 7:59 am
by pthread
I would but i have no method of recording it. sorry! I guess I could just call and give you an update or something?
Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 8:00 am
by pthread
Oh and P.S. - you could do the tech show "live" on location!!
Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 1:16 pm
by Linc
pthread wrote:Oh and P.S. - you could do the tech show "live" on location!!
Um.. We do the Tech Show live every week! Hauling all our gear to Philly and getting it to work there would not be easy though
Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 6:37 am
by chef8raygun2
Um.. We do the Tech Show live every week! Hauling all our gear to Philly and getting it to work there would not be easy though
So does that leave out a live TLLTS show from 2005 CES in LasVegas?
You could get Microsoft to sponsor you....oopps, sorry. lol
Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 9:08 am
by pthread
So for an update on the meeting, we had six people show up, not too bad. We discussed the different forms a project like this could take on, first the standard "hey, here is a map of people who agree to share their bandwidth, enjoy", and then an approach more like what seattle wireless does, an independent network. We chose to go this route, as it will allow us to learn a lot more, and hopefully get around those pesky contracts people have with verizon and comcast.
So one of the attendees will be looking into what it takes to legally accept donations, and I will be working on building two "proof of concept" boxes, with which basically we will test long range wifi links. Hopefully i will be doing that this weekend, I ordered two ms 802.11g cards yesterday.
The next meeting information will be posted on the calendar for philly2600.com, if anyone is interested, check it out.