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Wireless Clouds for Good and Ill

Posted by michael on from the slashdot-needs-a-wireless-topic dept.

dr_delete sent in a story about Athens, Georgia joining the ranks of municipalities creating free public wireless networks. In a counterpoint to that, we have the Pentagon cracking down on wireless devices, trying to control information leakage. And Newsforge has a story about starting your own wireless ISP. Nifty stuff.

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  1. Wireless Clouds, eh? by LordYUK · · Score: 3, Funny

    hmm, I havent ever seen a cloud tethered to anything, so I reckon we've had wireless clouds for a while now.

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  2. For Good and 3? by RumGunner · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is that the number of secure wireless networks?

  3. Starting your own wireless ISP by Jacer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Step one, find geeky friends within community. Step two, convince them the T1 should be at your house. Step three, setup equipment, use wireless repeaters ect, make sure that when you actually order the T1, that you get enough IP addresses to avoid NAT Step four, assign your traffic as priority, with a maximum of 98% of the bandwidth, and claim you don't know what the problem is

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  4. For good and evil? by bob_jenkins · · Score: 2, Funny

    Didn't you mean for Good and 666?