Students Seek Widespread Internet Access

Russ Jones writes "As a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, we have been struggling with finding ways to provide internet access to our growing off-campus students - currently, students have few to no options other than traditional, expensive, commercial providers. After feeling out large contracts through the University with major providers, it has become clear that they do not want to play ball with a public institution. Regardless, as a student I am still very interested in finding a solution to at least some of the woes. Students at Carolina are required to purchase laptops, many of which are wireless enabled. The University has put a lot of funding into wireless initiatives (but has only looked into using short-distance access points). Are there any long distance alternatives, that could possibly stretch a mile or more in radius? Any ideas on possible alternatives?"

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Re:would you like some cheese?

[yatest5]

If paying for it is really that bad, move in w/ a couple geeks and spread the cost of the connection between you.

Maybe he wants to have a *good time* at uni ;-).

"Stop making so much noise screwing, I'm concentrating on debugging the linux kernel up here!"