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A Motley Crew Beams No-Cost Broadband In New York
Peter Meyers points to this article in the Village Voice, one of the best I've seen on the growing guerilla-networking scene. He excerpts a bit for your pleasure: "Along with some 30 other volunteers in a group called NYCwireless, Townsend's on a crusade to set up wireless Internet access zones: small areas, often called free networks, where people can tap into high-speed connections, without cables or phone lines, at no cost. Call it a marriage of the Web and pirate radio, forged even as big telecom interests bicker over the rights to wireless-spectrum licenses."
Check out Consume in the UK.
Here is the link: http://www.nycwireless.net/. There is a map of acess points and the meeting schedule.
-- these are only opinions and they might not be mine.
Networking stuff is CHEAP
No, it isn't.
How much do you suppose it costs to lay down some transatlantic cable or put up a satellite?
How much do you figure it costs to put out long haul cable across the US?
How much do you think the switching hardware for all of that costs?
There is a world of difference between schmucks wiring up a little bit of ethernet around their house and putting up an international networking infrastructure.