[TriLUG] OT: solar wireless mesh router

[jonc at nc.rr.com]

You would want to go with SpeakEasy - and use their DSL product. They
allow reuse by mesh networks (and they used to encourage it).

I've also run Linux and OpenBSD routers with multiple Internet
connections. The step-by-step how-to's are very good. Although it is
just as simple to round-robin the requests, once you get a lot of users
on your mesh. With a lot of individual users, it works about the same.


----- Original Message -----
From: Tim Jowers <timjowers at gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 9:42 am
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT: solar wireless mesh router
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>

> Kevin,
> 
>   I'm with you. I have a good rooftop (HOA withstanding) with 
> excellentcoverage of about 100 homes. I live off of Lake Pine in 
> Kildaire Farm. Maybe
> we can find enough people to justify a T1 somewhere and roll this out
> legally. I guess the legal problems are what killed boingo although 
> I never
> followed them closely. What prototocol? 802.11n?
> 
>  On a Linux-specific note, has anyone setup Linux to share two 
> networks? I
> understand Linux supports failover to another network card but what 
> I wanted
> was load-balanced packets and for Linux to repond on the incoming 
> network. I
> tried this with Apache but could not get it to respond on the 
> network from
> which the packet came. It always responded on one network and - of 
> course-
> this is not what I wanted. More exactly:
> 
>       /----NIC1------- <-- please send/recv only on this network --
> -->
> CPU
>       \----NIC2------- <-- please send/recv only on this network --
> -->
> 
>    I guess we'd setup squid and allow any person who helps pay for 
> the T1
> and equipment to use the network. And encourage others to add their
> POP/router to extend the network.
> 
>    I am toying with writing a distributed peer-based webserver 
> module.Sorta like bittorrent for the web. I've antipatented this 
> idea on
> shouldexist.org several years back and think it would be a great 
> way to
> ensure Internet control remains with the actual users rather than
> centralized computing which is inherently bad both technically and 
> civillyIMO.
> 
> Thanks,
> TimJowers
> 
> 
> On 6/11/07, Kevin Otte <nivex at nivex.net> wrote:
> >
> > http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/3950/meraki_introduces_first
> > Thanks to Dave Pcolar for the link.
> >
> > Perhaps something like this can be a building block in a system that
> > will give TWC, et al, a run for their money.
> >
> > -- Kevin
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