you have to start somewhere. i am not saying it will be the world wide web in a day. just a new way to do things that may have the ability to be less controlled for a while. yes, it may be far fetched but when i graduated high school in 1988 i had never heard of the internet. On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Justin Krejci <jus at krytosvirus.com> wrote: > It could be he meant internet (note: lowercase ' i ' ) to mean its basic > term of network of networks, which could also have one or more paths to the > (big ' I ') Internet. > </devils advocate> > > A large scale wireless network is difficult to manage. Also licensed > frequencies are so much better to use in terms of signal interference but > they cost non-zero dollars. > I am not suggesting you quit trying but it will take a serious effort > (read: lots of time) to actually deploy and maintain on an ongoing basis. > This project is only passively interesting to me personally but I have no > problems offering up moral support and assist on any periodic > troubleshooting requests sent via the list here. > > > On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 17:09 -0600, Tony Yarusso wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Samael <samael.anon at gmail.com> wrote: > > fcc opend up bandwidth for public use. we could make a wireless mesh > > network consisting of multiple antena and start our own internet. > > Yes, technically you *could*, but just how much usefulness would a > network with just you on it have? No access to your bank, Freenode,mn-linux.org, Google, etc. "Critical mass" and "economy of scale" are > pretty important concepts here. > > - Tony > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesotatclug-list at mn-linux.orghttp://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20101222/0fab835a/attachment.htm