i am also only passively interested. i have to give credit to tom on this list for the idea. just trying to throw an angle out there for rj. On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Samael <samael.anon at gmail.com> wrote: > 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/eccf059b/attachment.htm