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

[Talia Johnson]

Hi all,

One caveat for DSL here in Ottawa if you're in the Greenboro area  
you're at the edge of coverage for DSL and pretty much never get the  
full speed. I was lucky to get 1 mbit on DSL there and ended up  
switching to cable.

Off-lease systems are often a good option for those with limited  
budget looking for a computer. If they don't come with an OS most  
flavours of Linux will run on them.

Something to keep in mind if anyone wants an ogWiFi in the area and  
they don't have broadband yet.

Talia Johnson
talia at candjsolutions.com



On 31-Aug-09, at 08:39, Sampson, David wrote:

>
>> In three 3 years, you can have today's hardware as "3-year
>> old junk" :-)
>>
>>
>
> For those who can afford to call a computer that bridges the digital
> divide junk can afford to buy their own  IMHO.
>
> My 6 year old laptop still does everything the average person needs.
> Word processing, spreadsheets, email and web.
>
>
>> Let's see:
>> 3 computers on 56K dialup is a 18kbits/s each.
>> 230 computers on 7M DSL is 30kbits/s each.
>>
>
> Then dial up for each household makes more sense. I would have thought
> more stats in determining average load per user and not %100 load all
> the time.
>
>
>> Only you rarely actually get 7M out of commodity ISPs like
>> Bell,
>
> NCF.ca is pretty good for giving me what they say based on my class of
> line.
>
> Cheers
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