Considering WiMAX has a radius of 30 miles one transmitter should should do the job. Setting up a Linux server with Apache and two network cards will do the trick.You'll definitely need a WiMAX transmitting tower. in building wireless community networks the focus was on regular 802 11 WiFi and setting up multiple repeaters. You have to do some door knocking to get some to get support from the local community to share the cost of setting up your WiMAX tower. With a radius of 30 miles you could lower the WiMAX tower cost to a couple dollars a year per person. Easily less than five dollars a year per person. WiMAXX transfer rates are around 70 Mb per second with a bunch of repeaters you could cover most of the state with a slow transfer rate but everyone can still communicate. And then it's a matter of keeping the corporate people off of your net. If you only have radius of 30 miles you could require people in the local area to ftp via your net for access to community content sending their Mac address and you could add that to your access list. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20100819/027f53a0/attachment.htm