[ogWiFi] Wireless access for a whole community...How to do it

[Michael Richardson]

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>>>>> "David" == David Sampson <Sampson> writes:
    >> The key, in my opinion, is to realize that you want to grow into
    >> being a mesh wireless network.  Do not try to this this
    >> immediately, but think about this as a longer term goal.
    >> 

    David> 3-5 years is our outlook curently... I will have to research
    David> how we could exploit mesh with "obsolete" hardware. Remember

  In three 3 years, you can have today's hardware as "3-year old junk" :-)

    David> Better than 3 computers sharing dial up. Anything is better
    David> than nothing. And often these groups start with no computers
    David> and no internet.  Refer back to long term goal.
   
Let's see:
  3 computers on 56K dialup is a 18kbits/s each.
  230 computers on 7M DSL is 30kbits/s each.  

Only you rarely actually get 7M out of commodity ISPs like Bell, and you
can see that if you get half that, dialup was better.  And, once it's
"always on" the demand for bandwidth and issues with p2p dominating
everything else goes up.

    >> Don't. ogwifi already provides that functionality with wifidog.
    >> Alternatively, you may want to consider "fon.com".

    David> I definitely want to work something with OGWIFI if the group
    David> is interested. I figure the lack of funds to pay membership
    David> will keep that in the long term future, but something we can
    David> start forging right away IMHO.

I've stated repeatedly that ogwifi is shooting itself in the foot by not
having multiple classes of membership.

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