Re: Nodes in Easton

Did anyone see the Financial Times on Saturday? I believe we may have a few
Journo's amongst us ;-)

It was quite a well put together report about the state of Public Wi-Fi and
most of the current posters here got a mention.

Good stuff.

Paul

On 25/10/02 12:36 pm, "Alex Threlfall" <alex-9Ca/[email protected]> wrote:

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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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>> town - bog brush for your teeth
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