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Mega Public WAN In Sydney
Chris Meder writes: "As posted on CFGN - The Nation , gibed by the recent unreasonable price hikes in Broadband connectivity in Australia, which come already after a strained relationship between Broadband users and the major telco/ISP Telstra BigPond Internet, a group of people in the largest Australian metropolitan city of Sydney have decided to form a city wide amateur wireless network. The team behind this clever idea have also put up a detailed graphical database of people interested and are still looking for more numbers to get this off the ground." This last part reminds me of the Global Access Wireless Database, as featured here. Update: 01/23 18:53 GMT by T : Reader Peter Mann wrote to point out that "there's a mailing list for a similar
wireless project in Sydney at http://sydney.air.net.au."
Melbourne has had it's own wireless network running, as have other cities in australia. Visit air.net.au for an idea of other projects which have been going for much longer.
Well, the link didn't say anything about connection to the Internet as a whole, it seemed to focus more on creating a "humongous LAN".
Of course, they'll probably get Internet access somehow, whether it's buying a line legitimately or piggybacking on the broadband connections of the few people on it who still buy them.
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Telstra isn't the only internet backbone provider in Australia... They are the largest, only because they are the dominant phone company.
There is also Optus, who provide excellent service and are slowly taking over Telstras business.
Ozemail/UUNet, sucky, overpriced, but still alive and kicking
Primus - Small, but I'm pretty sure they have there own link
There was also one.net, but it recently went broke
Correction to the url above
Also remember AAPT, which have every single Victorian Government link (or did), as well as a few other major links including Connect.com iirc. Also, Optus has the Southern Cross Link + the AARNET (ATM connection between every uni in Oz).
Non-exhaustive list:
Adelaide
Brisbane
Gold Coast
Melbourne
Mudgee
Perth
Sydney
Western Sydney
"If you create user accounts, by default, they will have an account type of Administrator with no password." KB Q293834
Crikey - there's at least four just in Perth!
Perth: http://www.e3.com.au
Perth: http://www.innaloo.net
Perth: http://www.perthwireless.net
Perth: http://www.lwn.net.au
Never mind all the others around Oz
Brisbane: http://www.brishmesh.net
Melbourne: http://melbwireless.dyndns.org
Gold Coast: http://www.xtreme.net.au
Mudgee: http://hwy.com.au/~bigmoe/wlan
Just to name a few... Do some damn research you Monkeys! Sydney Wireless is just one of at least 20 separate wireless groups in Australia.
wut?
..It's a MAN, not a WAN.
Primus - Small, but I'm pretty sure they have there own link
Primus use Southern Cross for some international traffic and split the rest between Optus & Telstra. They run their own exchanges (mainly for voice) in at least Sydney & Melbourne.
Optus has been spending a small fortune putting fiber between capitals and some regional centers to then onsell to the other telecoms and really cut into Telstra's market.
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Why is it that so many people think that the internet is censored in Australia? Websites hosted in Australia are, not the net.
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In brisbane there are 397 nodes, and 25 active interfaces.
;)
If it wasn't for heaps of hills in brisbane, there would be more links I'm sure.
I've got my two cards, and lap tops, just need to get the pig tails and construct a couple of aerials.
Not so much excitement as there was a few months ago, as people move to actually get links active.
Also much of the excitement died down when a few people started getting polical and beurocraticalness++
But that is needed as people need to deal with the government. Much of brisbanes success is because of its organisation, and some very helpful people.
Organisation, and helpfulness is the key to making these things work(plus having a telco which likes to shaft everyone helps with peoples motivation
http://brismesh.org/
In the UK: Consume http://consume.net/
In Seattle: Seattle wireless: http://seattlewireless.net
In New York: NYCWireless: http://nycwireless.net
etc etc.
For more info have a look at FreeNetworks: http://freenetworks.org/
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There are very few other carrier grade links coming into Australia [excluding dodgy satellite stuff] it's still mostly owned by Telstra and Optus.
Not Meta-modding due to apathy.
It's not me who's saying that, that's just how things are, you can seet it here
You can also find good stuff about it at google.
ok a few pointers, 1 this is an intranet, and all likely hood won't have much if any official direct/indirect internet access as this is a very grey area of the law and the ACA is the likely to stop us any way, however this said, a group in perth have a dsl link to WAIX (western australian Internet eXchange) for local to that location traffic, basicly any ISP/biz linked into that building. Thanks to who ever posted this as the site has recieved an overwhelming response will help trying to convince companies to help sponsor/support our little project. Once we have our first AP up, there will be a testing/meeting day to be announced, so we can all get togeather and really tryout the tech in the area. So stay tuned to http://www.sydneywireless.com for future updates.