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Mega Public WAN In Sydney

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the annoyance-is-the-mother-of-invention dept.

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."

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  1. UNreasonable price hikes? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Excuse me?

    Telstra's revised pricing plan is around AU$90 for 3gig of traffic.

    In Australia, the average wholesale rate for data is around AU$100/gig.

    Now even given that Telstra gets it a lot cheaper than that, it's still not even a remotely unreasonable retail price in the Australian market.

    The real problem here is that Australia (as with most other places) has a vocal minority of broadband users who feel that it's their God-given right to leech data 24x7 without needing to pay for it.

    Is this wireless initiative a Good Thing? For sure, but don't expect it to get off the ground. Few people have the requisite motivation, cash, and technical nous to make it work.

    ZS

  2. Sounds great! by autopr0n · · Score: 1, Troll

    Just like the regular internet, but 100 times as slow!! woohoo!

    Seriously though, the 'net in general isn't all that bad if you're willing to pay money for a 'real' connection (say a bussness class DSL or something.) It's just that you wankers want to pay $20/mo for unlimited unrestricted access to the net, and that's just not ever going to happen.

    And since you can't get it, your solution is to completly replace the net with something 'wireless' (because wireless is way cooler then wired, dispite the fact that it's also way slower, right?). I'm sure you'll save a ton of money that way.

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  3. What? by autopr0n · · Score: 1, Troll

    Are you saying a metropolis is not a wide area? Or do you not understand the whole 'subset/superset' relationship?

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