Comments on: Hands off our Wi-Fi network!

Dianah Neff, CIO for the city of Philadelphia, says opponents of the city's plan to offer wireless broadband access have a hidden agenda.

Let's get underway!

I am dumbfounded that Verizon's lobbiests can make this sort of thing happen. As a Wi-Fi enthusiast, I say go build it -- and we'll have quite blatant proof of their dastardly tactics. View Wi-Fi in your neighborhood at WiFiMaps.com

Let's get underway!

I am dumbfounded that Verizon's lobbiests can make this sort of thing happen. As a Wi-Fi enthusiast, I say go build it -- and we'll have quite blatant proof of their dastardly tactics. View Wi-Fi in your neighborhood at WiFiMaps.com

elf-forming and self-healing networks

Here is my dilemna. I am interested in setting open access high speed wireless as part of a roving open air "Public Markets" project aimed at low-income at-risk folks. I am therefore all in favor of free public access to high speed wireless internet connections.
I have never had a cell phone. At this point I can really see some advantages to having one. The service with the best coverage is leading the charge against public WIFI systems. I don't think I want to be sending $40.00 or more per month to a corporation that is anti-public service. First I tried to find a service provider that met some social screening filters. I couldn't find any.

Then I thought "what about VoIP phones that can hook into internet connections? With a little research I ran into this :

{NexLink is a mesh-based broadband network that can carry data, VoIP calls, and streaming video at broadband connection speeds of up to 1.5 Mbps, while traveling at multi-lane highway velocities, according to NexGen. It is based on 2.4GHz wireless networking, but is not 802.11 compliant. Instead, NexCity implemented a proprietary networking protocol, for greater security and privacy.

Both mobile and fixed infrastructure devices in the NexLink network can act as repeaters and routers. This capability allows each unit to extend the network with self-forming and self-healing networks based on ad hoc, peer-to-peer networking. In the event of a major emergency that disables local fixed devices, first responders arriving on the scene can form a network "automatically and seamlessly," Farley says, using mobile NexLink devices.}

These "self-forming and self-healing networks" really intrigue me. I like the language and the concept, a sort of public service blob that forms around networks of public service people on the move.

So my question: Is there anybody out there working on similar open source type versions of this that would might work in Northern California? Specifically integrating cell phones?
Can the "hot spots" be mobil?
Can we start small and make it work?
Can we make it affordable?
Can everybody in the neighborhood use it?

Interested, but in the dark,

Richard Roth
<www.cChaos.org>
<cChaosBroadcast.blogspot.com>

[Al Johnsons]

VoIP phones

http://www.analogstereo.com/volvo_xc70_owners_manual.htm

elf-forming and self-healing networks

Here is my dilemna. I am interested in setting open access high speed wireless as part of a roving open air "Public Markets" project aimed at low-income at-risk folks. I am therefore all in favor of free public access to high speed wireless internet connections.
I have never had a cell phone. At this point I can really see some advantages to having one. The service with the best coverage is leading the charge against public WIFI systems. I don't think I want to be sending $40.00 or more per month to a corporation that is anti-public service. First I tried to find a service provider that met some social screening filters. I couldn't find any.

Then I thought "what about VoIP phones that can hook into internet connections? With a little research I ran into this :

{NexLink is a mesh-based broadband network that can carry data, VoIP calls, and streaming video at broadband connection speeds of up to 1.5 Mbps, while traveling at multi-lane highway velocities, according to NexGen. It is based on 2.4GHz wireless networking, but is not 802.11 compliant. Instead, NexCity implemented a proprietary networking protocol, for greater security and privacy.

Both mobile and fixed infrastructure devices in the NexLink network can act as repeaters and routers. This capability allows each unit to extend the network with self-forming and self-healing networks based on ad hoc, peer-to-peer networking. In the event of a major emergency that disables local fixed devices, first responders arriving on the scene can form a network "automatically and seamlessly," Farley says, using mobile NexLink devices.}

These "self-forming and self-healing networks" really intrigue me. I like the language and the concept, a sort of public service blob that forms around networks of public service people on the move.

So my question: Is there anybody out there working on similar open source type versions of this that would might work in Northern California? Specifically integrating cell phones?
Can the "hot spots" be mobil?
Can we start small and make it work?
Can we make it affordable?
Can everybody in the neighborhood use it?

Interested, but in the dark,

Richard Roth
<www.cChaos.org>
<cChaosBroadcast.blogspot.com>

[Al Johnsons]

VoIP phones

http://www.analogstereo.com/volvo_xc70_owners_manual.htm

Municipal Networks

Municipal WiFI services are being introduced in rural communities across America to provide residents, visitors and businesses with high-speed wireless Internet access. Reliable and affordable access to the Internet is becoming a public utility as important as gas, electric, and water. What's next, you ask...how about Municipal VoIP?

Municipal Networks

Municipal WiFI services are being introduced in rural communities across America to provide residents, visitors and businesses with high-speed wireless Internet access. Reliable and affordable access to the Internet is becoming a public utility as important as gas, electric, and water. What's next, you ask...how about Municipal VoIP?