Sounds like fun.  I'm a wireless newbie, but I am eager to learn and willing
help out as I can.

Mike Bresnahan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tcwug-list-admin at tcwug.org [mailto:tcwug-list-admin at tcwug.org]On
> Behalf Of steve ulrich
> Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 11:17 AM
> To: tcwug-list at tcwug.org
> Subject: [TCWUG] interest in an actual community wireless network?
>
>
>
> all-
>
> i joined this mailing list a couple of weeks ago and i just recently
> finished catching up on the mailing list archives.  from some of the
> discussions that took place a couple of months ago there was some interest
> in creating a real community wireless network but nothing (or so it would
> seem from the archives) was really done about it.
>
> i've had several opportunities to use the seattle wireless networks and
> several in the bay area as well as the guerrilla network in the boston
> area and i'm quite disappointed that there isn't anything equivalent in
> the twin cities area.
>
> since building really big service provider networks is what i do for a
> living. i figured if i'm disappointed in this i should really do something
> about it.
>
> is there a populace amongst the list that would be interested in meeting
> and coordinating the deployment (albeit i'm sure quite limited at this
> time?) of such a network?  i'm in the process of setting up a public
> access point in my neighborhood (NE minneapolis) once my omnis show up.
>
> i've been hacking on the NoCatAuth stuff (http://www.nocat.net) to talk to
> real routers (cisco) for the traffic shaping and such.  since this seems
> to be the most promising mode of community authentication i would be quite
> willing to host an authetication server for local authentication and
> integration with other WCNs.
>
> any takers? any interest in setting up a face to face meeting for
> interested parties? there are a plethora of network design and
> administration issues which would need to be addressed in deploying this
> on any scale. i understand that the dunn bros. in st. paul has wireless
> access and that it will be forthcoming at a few other locations.  if there
> is considerable interest in a whiteboard session i can likely host a
> meeting a class/meeting room at work with a whiteboard. (sorry - no public
> wireless access).
>
>
>
>
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> steve ulrich                       sulrich at botwerks.org
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