wireless networking in the Twin Cities

["Austad, Jay" <austad@marketwatch.com>]

I was reading this article on Slashdot:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/10/04/140229&mode=nested

and I thought it might be interesting to try something like this here in the
twin cities area.  I've seen people make directional antennas and squeeze
about 7 miles out of a WaveLan card.  One of the sites that the slashdot
article refers to has plans for building different antennas.  

I'm thinking something along the lines of a large private network with
wireless nodes running MRTd (http://www.mrtd.net), and points of access to
the internet at large.  Anyone else think this might be interesting?

FYI, I live 23 stories up in downtown saint paul, so I have a pretty good
view to alot of outlying areas.


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