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Building A Community Wireless Network From Scratch

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the gotta-have-connections dept.

adelayde writes "This summer I've been involved in a project to build a community-orientated wireless network in the city of Bristol, England. Recently I published an article ( mirrored here and here) describing what we have achieved so far, including some interesting thoughts on passive repeaters. There is a supporting site (mirrored here) with detailed instructions on how to build antennae, and the main project web site is also available here. A bit of own trumpet blowing perhaps, but I think it'll be of interest to those readers involved in similar projects and be of some help to those thinking of starting their own."

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  1. Similar Projects by kaosrain · · Score: 5, Informative

    Similar projects for Seattle, Washington and Sonoma County, California can be found here and here, respectively.

    -Kaos

  2. Waterloo wireless by c13v3rm0nk3y · · Score: 4, Informative

    I know this has been mentioned in another post, but apropros of this article, the Waterloo Wireless group is (or was, I haven't heard from them in some time) trying for complete world domination at 11Mbit/sec.

    I personally think that Tim Horton's (for those of you who need a reference, Timmies is like Krispy Kreme without all the ambience) should go all Starbuck's on us and implement wireless access points in their coffee shops. Well, at least around the University of Waterloo, anyway.

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    -- clvrmnky
  3. Re:Interesting by adelayde · · Score: 3, Informative

    Hi Jonathan,

    Thanks for your comments. Yes, we only have 4 houses connected at the moment, this have proven that it works. If you have a look at the project web site, you'll see that we're making funding applications at the moment in order to install more nodes - it's a question of finance essentially. There are plans in the next month to put up several new nodes and to exetend the back-bone to cover a wider area. It is a coumminity oriented project and so anyone with the wherewithal to do so can put up a node now and get connected. If you are interest in being involved in the project, check out the web site and join the mailing list. BTW. We are and have been in discussion with the city council and are looking for funding there.