RE: Nodes in Easton

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                      Alex Threlfall - Cyberprog New Media
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: alex-9Ca/[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of Andy Laurence
> Sent: 25 October 2002 1:32 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [consumebristol] Nodes in Easton
> 
> 
> Last night, I met with a group of people connected with the Easton 
> Community Centre.  It turns out they've had a working node 
> attached to a 
> 2Mbps Internet connection since June!  They've got 4 
> households connected 
> to the node at the community centre.  I have access to a 
> couple of houses 
> in the area, so I'll be building up a couple of PCs to make 
> nodes from.  
> I'm going to use the OpenAP distro from locustworld.net, as 
> I'm somewhat 
> tied by time.  This can be replaced by our own distro when 
> we're ready.
> 
> Hopefully this will translate into a reasonable network in 
> the area in a 
> short space of time.  Also, we may be able to get 
> line-of-sight to the St. 
> Michael's Hill node, so reasonable coverage of central Bristol may be 
> obtainable by the end of the year.  We shall have to see.  As 
> an aside, we 
> may get a mention on Points West tonight (BBC1, 6:30).  Here's hoping.
> 
> Andy
> -- 
> Building a wireless community network for Bristol 
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