[Sussex] Wireless AP

[Colin Tuckley]

Richie Jarvis wrote:

> SnS (part of the feeed.net network) uses the following charging system:
> 
> £6.95 per user on each node, of which £5 goes to the node owner, and 
> £1.95 goes to SnS (minus paypal charges.)

This sounds like it's aimed at people who want to use the WiFi portal as 
their primary net connection, i.e. people who live nearby but don't have 
their own broadband access.

What the Holbrook Club want is more akin to the way a hotel provides WiFi to 
it's residents. I suspect that the Holbrook only want coverage on their 
site, so no massive antennas would be needed.

I think that we should aim more at the sort of node that pier-to-pier in 
Brighton are using. On that subject, I read some stuff recently about a 
LinkSys router that can be flashed to run Linux and Mesh software - this 
would do what we want and if I remember correctly it was someone from SLUG 
talking about it.

If a PC :is: needed then I have a PII 266MHz box that I'd be willing to 
donate to the project, it probably ought to have a new processor fan (it 
sounds a bit rough) and it's not got much memory but is otherwise ok.

Colin

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