100 Mbps Community Fiber Network: Howto

batro writes: "The main page says it all: 'Everything slower than 10 Mbps is just a toy!' This is a nice writeup (with pictures!) of how a 100 Mbps community fiber network in northern Sweden came into being." And if over a grand in connection fees doesn't suit your locale (this took nearly complete neighborhood participation), Nurotek writes: "Check out Proxim's latest press release. They claim that they can push 100Mpbs via the 5Ghz RF band. Wonder if this will work ..."

Comments

"...compatible with the FUTURE!"

[unitron]

"All cables run in PVC-tubes about 50 cm below ground. A few main-tubes are absolutely full with cables, so unfortunately it isn't possible to install more cables in them..."

The only thing better than having more than enough conduit installed before the area where you are installing the conduit is covered over and made next to impossible to get to is to have way, way more than enough conduit installed.

you know, I can't help but think that...

[Telek]

this would actually improve community interaction.

Think about it. I know that it sounds silly, but if you have all of your neighbourhood on the same little network then it becomes much easier to do things like sharing files, playing games, and seeing when everyone's online, dropping notes to everyone to have that BBQ, etc, etc. I know that all of this can be done with the current internet, but having everyone on the same lan makes things a lot easier. I remember in University the dean of my residence was complaining that the networks that we set up were making us more antisocial, but the opposite was actually true. This was before we had internet in residence, and I set up an ICQ server on my machine and had a dedicated proxy out over my phone line and a 56k modem for email access (others allowed me to use their telephone lines and I had a cellphone anyways), and it was great to have everyone in the residence on ICQ at the same time, this was quite cool. We used to talk and use it to organize games and meetings and movies and the such all the time...

Oh back to the good old days. =P

Re:you know, I can't help but think that...

[Organic_Info]

The only problem I see (and in this case the were ok) is finding like minded people in your neighbourhood. The street I currently live in is generally populated with non-techies and old people (no ageism intended any silver(haired) surfers out there). In streets with like minded bandwidth lovers this would be great - I mean did you see the price $8/month.

Makes you think though that if this really took off how the comms companies would try and legislate this away from the people - a kind of comms RIAA/DMCA etc.

All I need to find now is a neighbourhood full of like minded bandwidth lovers : )

This is amazing

[Ice Tiger]

I think the amazing part is not the tech, but basically the vision and drive to see it through to completeion.

Well done guys.

Note to self:

[jhoffoss]

Move to Sweden after college.

Re:Harddrive sets the limit

[Sir_Real]

Tangentially on topic (read: offtopic).

I'm not sure what kind of hard drive you have, or what Operating system... So I'll start assuming things (in true slashdot style)... Assuming that you're running Linux and a newer IDE drive, you can increase your drive transfer rates (in my case, by nearly a factor of 2) using hdparm. It has a man page, and there is a good article on Oreillynet about it here

Andrew