Building Wireless Community Networks

4 Mar 2005 2:41 AM

Danny Kile

Want to build a network for wireless access to all homes in a
residential community of about 80 homes. Looking for a good source of
hardware, software and instructional material. Thank you, in advance for
any information you may be able to provide.

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Danny Kile
Certified FCC, ISCET, A+ , Network+

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4 Mar 2005 8:29 AM

outbackwifi

hi,
since you are technically oriented, why dont you give the university of
urbana champaign wireless (ucwireless.com) project a shot?
you wont need any proprietary hardware other than old pcs to use as
access points. antennas you can buy from hyperlink or rflinx.
you can also use soekris boards.
you havent mentioned whether you are going to give away the service for
free or will it be a paid service.
OpenwRT is also a good project if you have Linksys wRT routers

4 Mar 2005 11:40 AM

dale_at_wildew.com

http://www.seattlewireless.net/

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"outbackwifi" <shivku***@outbackwifi.com> wrote in message
news:1109924947.251787.284270@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> hi,
> since you are technically oriented, why dont you give the university of
> urbana champaign wireless (ucwireless.com) project a shot?
> you wont need any proprietary hardware other than old pcs to use as
> access points. antennas you can buy from hyperlink or rflinx.
> you can also use soekris boards.
> you havent mentioned whether you are going to give away the service for
> free or will it be a paid service.
> OpenwRT is also a good project if you have Linksys wRT routers
>

4 Mar 2005 1:00 PM

Jafo

As viewed from alt.internet.wireless, outbackwifi wrote:

>since you are technically oriented, why dont you give the university
>of urbana champaign wireless (ucwireless.com) project a shot?

Close. That's www.cuwireless.net

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Jafo

4 Mar 2005 4:51 PM

stephen

"outbackwifi" <shivku***@outbackwifi.com> wrote in message
news:1109924947.251787.284270@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> hi,
> since you are technically oriented, why dont you give the university of
> urbana champaign wireless (ucwireless.com) project a shot?

maybe you mean this one?
http://www.cuwireless.net/

> you wont need any proprietary hardware other than old pcs to use as
> access points. antennas you can buy from hyperlink or rflinx.
> you can also use soekris boards.
> you havent mentioned whether you are going to give away the service for
> free or will it be a paid service.
> OpenwRT is also a good project if you have Linksys wRT routers
>

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Regards

Stephen Hope - return address needs fewer xxs

4 Mar 2005 11:42 AM

Mads Bahrt

Danny Kile wrote:

> Want to build a network for wireless access to all homes in a
> residential community of about 80 homes. Looking for a good source of
> hardware, software and instructional material. Thank you, in advance for
> any information you may be able to provide.
>
>

O'reilly has a book titled specifically "Building Wireless Community
Networks": http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wirelesscommnet2/ - it might
be a good shot.